Sponsors

IBM is the world's largest information technology services company, with more than 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business.

Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT�?), founded in 1975, is a worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that enable governments to achieve more efficiency and improved service levels – without increasing budgets. In addition to being an active participant within the open source community, Microsoft is committed to open approaches that enable interoperability among heterogeneous technologies, such as Windows, Linux and open source.

OpenSourcery develops custom web applications and feature-rich websites for nonprofits, small businesses and government agencies - using 100% open source software. We believe in using technology for good, a philosophy that ranges from client selection to how we power our offices. We fully embrace the open source community in Portland, Oregon, where you'll find us presenting at conferences, attending technology events and giving back to the community.

Zenoss, Inc. delivers open source IT management solutions worldwide. Zenoss provides a complete network monitoring and systems management platform that discovers networked IT resources, monitors their performance and availability, and tracks changes through a configuration management database. Zenoss offers the right mix of features, flexibility, ease-of-use and affordability. Through DLT Solutions, Inc., these solutions are available to the public sector.

With 1.5 million users, CollabNet leads the software industry towards a new era of collaborative software development. By connecting remote teams and integrating disparate development tools, the CollabNet platform simplifies distributed development, reduces infrastructure costs by more than 50 percent, and eliminates silos between isolated teams to speed innovation by 20 percent and more. CollabNet is the company behind Subversion, the world’s best version control and Software Configuration Management solution for distributed teams. More than 600 industry leading companies use CollabNet’s solutions today, including Reuters, Philips Medical Systems, Capgemini, and Barclays Global Investors among others. Visit CollabNet at http://www.collab.net or get more information about Subversion at http://www.collab.net/subversion.

Analyze Soft Inc. is a full-service, professional information systems consulting and software design and development company. We utilize our expertise in project management, systems design, and database application development to help drive your organization successfully forward.

DatamanUSA, LLC is a minority women-owned, full-service Information Technology (IT) Services and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company with office in Colorado and Texas. We specialize in IT staff augmentation, IT and BPO services, and development of custom software applications. With basic principles of “value, commitment and integrity�?, we have successfully executed projects in technologies using Open Source, SOA, Microsoft, Oracle and legacy tools for various state government agencies and private companies.