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Sponsor Company Descriptions
 ActiveState Software Inc. - www.activestate.com
ActiveState, the dynamic languages experts, enables companies to develop, manage, and distribute applications with dynamic languages – from mission-critical enterprise IT applications to open source projects. Over 2 million developers and 97% of the Fortune 1000 rely on ActiveState’s development tools, commercial support, and OEM solutions for Perl, Python,Tcl to accelerate development productivity, shorten time-to-market, minimize risk, and ensure compliance with use and distribution of open source dynamic languages in IT applications.
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 Black Duck Software - www.blackducksoftware.com
Black Duck Software is the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development and maintenance costs while mitigating the risks and challenges associated with open source reuse, including hidden license obligations, security vulnerabilities, unsupported open source and version proliferation. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam and Hong Kong, as well as distribution partners throughout the world.
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 Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP - www.deweyleboeuf.com
Dewey & LeBoeuf is a full-service law firm providing counsel throughout the Americas, Europe, Russia/CIS, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. With more than 1,200 lawyers in major financial and commercial centers, the firm represents national and global corporations, financial institutions and government agencies in their most complex legal matters. Our Corporate practice spans a diverse range of industries, including software, semiconductor, Internet, e-commerce, energy and renewable energy, banking, consumer products, financial services, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, media, telecommunications and transportation.
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 DLA Piper - www.dlapiper.com
With 3,500 lawyers located in 29 countries and 67 offices throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the US, DLA Piper is positioned to help companies with their legal needs anywhere in the world.
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 EnterpriseDB - www.enterprisedb.com
EnterpriseDB, the enterprise Postgres company, provides enterprise-class products and services based on PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database. The company's Postgres Plus products are ideally suited for transaction-intensive applications requiring superior performance, massive scalability and compatibility with proprietary database products. EnterpriseDB has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Westford, Mass. For more information, please call +1-978-589-5700, or visit www.enterprisedb.com.
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 Geeknet - geek.net
Geeknet is the online network for the global geek community. Our sites include SourceForge, Slashdot, ThinkGeek, ohloh and freshmeat. We serve an audience of more than 40 million users each month and provide the tech-obsessed with content, culture, connections, commerce, and all the things that geeks crave. Want to learn more? Check us out @ geek.net.
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 Goodwin Procter LLP - www.goodwinprocter.com
Founded in 1912, Goodwin Procter LLP is one of the nation’s leading law firms, with offices in Boston, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. The firm provides corporate law and litigation services to clients ranging from start-up companies to Fortune 500 multinationals, with a focus on matters involving private equity; technology companies; financial services; real estate, REITs and real estate capital markets; intellectual property; and products liability and mass torts.
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 Hippo - www.onehippo.com/en/
Hippo helps companies manage and access information, protect sensitive data, share knowledge, optimize collaboration and reduce operational costs through its Content Management and Portal technologies. With the combination of enterprise-class support and open source technology, Hippo provides the best of both worlds: the flexibility and innovation of open source combined with the stability and service of an established vendor.
Hippo has over 150 customers across multiple industries including education, publishing, manufacturing, financial services and government. To support the expanding Hippo community, Hippo has 50 employees located in its headquarters in Amsterdam and San Francisco.
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 IBM - www.ibm.com
IBM is a values-based enterprise of individuals who create and apply technology to make the world work better. Today, about 400,000 IBMers around the world invent and integrate hardware, software, and services to enable forward-thinking enterprises, institutions, and people everywhere to succeed on a smarter planet.
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 Kaltura - www.kaltura.com | www.kaltura.org
Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. Over 48,000 web publishers, integrators, and developers use our flexible platform to power advanced video functionalities. Kaltura’s platform can be deployed as a SaaS service, or as a self-hosted solution - as a free Community Edition, or Enterprise Edition under a commercial license. Kaltura is also a founding member of the ‘Open Video Alliance’ (www.openvideoalliance.org), a coalition of organizations dedicated to fostering open standards for online video.
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 Kirkland & Ellis LLP - www.kirkland.com
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is a 1,500-attorney law firm representing global clients in complex intellectual property and technology matters, litigation and dispute resolution/arbitration, corporate and tax, restructuring and real estate. The Firm has offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, D.C.
Kirkland's open source lawyers engage in open source license conflict analysis, software pedigree review and software license compliance audits. When risks are identified, we provide risk mitigation counseling such as dual licensing, structuring and overseeing clean room development, developing open source policies and training programs and licensing source code under open source licenses.
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 Microsoft - www.microsoft.com
At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them. We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Microsoft's open source strategy is grounded in recognition of the value of openness to working with others -- including commercial open source vendors, developers and open source communities -- to help customers and partners succeed in today's heterogeneous "world of choice."
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 North Bridge Venture Partners - www.northbridge.com
North Bridge Venture Partners is an active, early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts and San Mateo, California, founded in 1994. With approximately $2.9 billion under management, including North Bridge Growth Equity, a growth equity firm that invests in technology middle-market companies, North Bridge Venture Partners focuses on investments in the communications, software, internet, healthcare, and materials technology. Working closely with entrepreneurs, North Bridge adds value by providing strategic guidance, specific industry knowledge, team-building skills and an in-depth understanding of both private and public financings.
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 Novell - www.novell.com
Novell delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one.
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 Nuxeo - www.nuxeo.com
Enterprise Content Management is our focus. A software vendor with global reach, Nuxeo is among a handful of pioneering software companies dedicated to accelerating open source acceptance into mainstream enterprise. Founded in 2000, Nuxeo continues to execute on its strategy: be a disruptive force and instigate change to today’s software industry inefficient practices. Our success is measured on the strength of our product and community: high customer satisfaction rates, strategic partnerships, collaborative approaches to content-centric applications.
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 OpenLogic - www.openlogic.com
OpenLogic is a leading provider of solutions that enable enterprises to safely acquire, support, and control open source software. OpenLogic provides a library of thousands of open source software packages, including hundreds that have been certified for use in the enterprise. OpenLogic also offers scanning and governance tools, license compliance solutions, indemnification, updates, and commercial-grade technical support for open source and CentOS Linux backed by the OpenLogic Expert Community.
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 Open-Xchange - www.open-xchange.com
Open-Xchange is the innovator of integrated open source collaboration for enterprises, academic institutions, and government authorities -- providing mission-critical collaborative functions like email, calendaring, contacts and task management, fully integrated with advanced groupware features such as Documail, Smart Linking, Smart Permissions, and document sharing.
Today, more than 3,500 companies in 65 countries run Open-Xchange on premises and an additional 15 million paid mailboxes through SaaS partnerships with top web hosting companies, ISPs and telecommunications companies.
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 Oracle - www.oracle.com/opensource
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. Oracle is committed to offering choice, flexibility, and lower cost of computing for end users. By investing significant resources in developing, testing, optimizing, and supporting open source technologies such as MySQL, OpenOffice, GlassFish, Linux, PHP, Apache, Eclipse, Berkeley DB, NetBeans, VirtualBox, Xen, and InnoDB, Oracle is clearly embracing and offering leading open source solutions as a viable choice for development and deployment.
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 Pentaho Corporation - www.pentaho.com
Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence (BI). Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration/ETL, data mining and a BI platform that have made it the world’s leading and most widely deployed commercial open source BI suite. Pentaho provides support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription that can lower total cost of ownership by 90% compared to proprietary BI offerings.
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 Protecode - www.protecode.com
Protecode has the world’s fastest and most reliable software intellectual property (IP) engine, allowing real-time detection and management of external licensing and copyright issues. Built for ease-of-use, Protecode makes leveraging open source and third party software a straightforward process for organizations of all sizes. Detect common code early, obtain a bill of materials, understand licensing obligations and achieve mandated IP governance all within established workflows. Protecode’s solutions enable enterprises to control costs and to dramatically increase and protect software assets.
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 Red Hat - www.redhat.com
Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for six consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualiztion and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide.
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 SAP - www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/opensource-integration
SAP is the world's leading provider of business software, offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes across more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses. With more than 86,000 customers (including customers from the acquisition of Business Objects) in over 120 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol "SAP."
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 SOPERA - www.sopera.com
SOPERA supports companies in realizing service-oriented architectures (SOA). SOPERA is based on the SOA platform of SOA pioneer Deutsche Post. Into SOPERA has gone the experience from over seven years of developing and operating the platform in a demanding enterprise environment. SOPERA is an open source, modular, standard-based SOA framework, supports best-of-breed concepts and covers the entire SOA lifecycle. Independent of Deutsche Post, SOPERA GmbH offers implementation, consulting and the entire support and service for the software.
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 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati - www.wsgr.com
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's broad range of services and legal disciplines is focused on serving the principal challenges faced by the management and boards of directors of business enterprises. The firm is nationally recognized as a leader in the fields of corporate governance and finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, securities class action litigation, employment law, intellectual property, and antitrust, among many other areas of law. With long-standing roots in Silicon Valley, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has offices in Austin, New York, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai, and Washington, D.C.
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 WSO2 - http://wso2.com
WSO2 is an open, customer-driven, innovative product development company. Delivering the only complete enterprise SOA middleware stack that is purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today's heterogeneous enterprise environments, WSO2's lean middleware enables rapid deployment and easy customization. We are the only vendor offering all of our software 100% open source under the Apache License. We provide first class support from vendor selection to production for enterprise middleware deployments.
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 Zimbra - www.zimbra.com
Zimbra, a division of VMware, is the leader in open source, next-generation email and collaboration software. Innovative experiences, such as a rich AJAX web interface, streamlined administration, advanced mobility and both on-premises and hosted cloud deployment options has quickly made Zimbra a preferred platform foruniversities, businesses and service providers. With more than 55 million paid mailboxes worldwide, Zimbra is one of the largest and fastest growing email providers.
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