Founded in 2003, BitRock is a privately held software company with offices in Seville, Spain and San Francisco, USA. Drawing from the professional experience of its employees, which spans Silicon Valley, Europe and Southeast Asia, BitRock develops multiplatform installation and management tools. BitRock's clients range from large corporations and governments to independent software vendors and educational institutions, as well as the leading commercial open source companies.

• More information: www.bitrock.com

Founded in late 2004, Canonical Ltd is a company headquartered in Europe with over 200 employees working in 23 countries (and counting). Canonical is the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu project. Their mission is to realize the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organizations by ensuring the world's best free software platform is available to everyone. As well, they aim to offer high quality professional services and facilitate the continued growth and development of the free software community.

• More information: www.canonical.com

Based in Germany, Centigrade is committed to excellence in user interface design and development services, supporting customers in creating human-centered software products of high usability and architectural elegance. With its creative and agile team of designers and software engineers, Centigrade is able to offer individual service options, ranging from exclusive visual designs through consulting activities to fully integrated Java-based solutions.

• More information: www.centigrade.de

Intel pushes the boundaries of innovation so our work can make people's lives more exciting, fulfilling, and manageable. And our work never stops. We never stop looking for the next leap ahead-in technology, education, culture, manufacturing, and social responsibility. And we never stop striving to deliver solutions with greater benefits for everyone. At Intel BX, you'll find a range of resources that provide the answers you need to evaluate current solutions (like Openbravo) and make informed decisions-so you can get back to business.

• More information: bx.intel.com

JasperSoft is the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI). With more than two million downloads worldwide and more than 6,000 commercial customers in 81 countries. JasperSoft offers the most widely used open source BI software in the world. The JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite is comprised of an interactive reporting server, graphical and ad hoc report design interfaces, an OLAP analysis server, an ETL data integration tool, and a Java reporting library for scalable small and medium size enterprises, and large enterprise department solutions, for use either stand-alone or embedded into other applications.

• More information: www.jaspersoft.com

KESDEE Inc. provides innovative and interactive e-learning solutions to Global Finance Professionals. KESDEE's off-the-shelf e-learning solutions consist of 600 accredited courses on various topics in Banking, Finance, Accounting, Insurance and Risk Management spanning about 1800 hours of e-Learning.

• More information: www.kesdee.com

Open Invention NetworkSM is an intellectual property company that was formed to promote Linux by using patents to create a collaborative environment. It promotes a positive, fertile ecosystem for Linux, which in turns drives innovation and choice in the global marketplace. This helps ensure the continuation of innovation that has benefited software vendors, customers, emerging markets and investors.

• More information: www.openinventionnetwork.com

Oracle Corporation was founded in 1977 in Redwood, California. They introduced the first Relational Database Management System based on the IBM System/R model and the first database management system utilizing IBM's Structured Query Language (SQL) technology. Today, the Oracle DBMS is supported on over 80 different operating environments, ranging from IBM mainframes, DEC VAX minicomputers, UNIX-based minicomputers, Windows NT and several proprietary hardware-operating system platforms, and is clearly the world's largest RDBMS vendor. Oracle employs more than 42,000 professionals in 93 countries around the world.

• More information: www.oracle.com

Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence (BI). Pentaho Open BI Suite provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform that have made it the world's leading and most widely deployed open source BI suite. Pentaho's commercial open source business model eliminates software license fees, providing support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription. In the years since Pentaho's inception as the pioneer in commercial open source BI, Pentaho's products have been downloaded more than three million times, with production deployments at companies ranging from small organizations to The Global 2000.

• More information: www.pentaho.com

rBuilder™ and the rPath™ Appliance Platform transform applications into software appliances. Software appliances simplify server applications by eliminating the hassles of installation, configuration, and maintenance. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can expand their markets and simultaneously reduce development and support costs by adopting the software appliance approach. rPath is also the first and only company to automate support for all the major virtualization formats. The company is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

• More information: www.rpath.com

Sun Microsystems Inc. develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun provides a diversity of software, systems, services, and microelectronics that power everything from consumer electronics, to developer tools and the world's most powerful datacenters.

• More information: www.sun.com

YourKit is kindly supporting open source projects with its full-featured Java Profiler. YourKit, LLC is creator of innovative and intelligent tools for profiling Java and .NET applications. Take a look at YourKit's leading software products: YourKit Java Profiler and YourKit ASP.NET Profiler.

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