Sponsor
For information on becoming a Sponsor or Exhibitor:
Contact Delia Frees: Delia@ApacheCon.com
Hippo
Gold Sponsor
Hippo develops the Apache licensed Hippo CMS and Hippo Portal application. Hippo is an avid believer of the Apache way of developing, and participates pro-actively in ASF Projects. Hippo's developers are stimulated to get involved in Apache in order to become committed in relevant projects, sharing knowledge with others in true Apache spirit. You can find code initiated by Hippo people in many projects, amongst others: Apache Cocoon, Apache Jetspeed and Apache Slide. Hippo is a member of the Java Community Process and its developers help define new Java specifications.
Hippo CMS is already widely used in the Netherlands and across Europe. With the acquisition of the assets of Blue Sunrise, another great company active in the Apache community, Hippo obtained a strong threshold into the USA. Hippo is now well on the way to become a household name in the US market space, and is rolling out vastly to set the global standard in open source content management and portal applications.
For more information, visit the company website at http://www.onehippo.com. or get involved in the Hippo community at http://www.hippocms.org.
Silver Sponsor
Google is a proud user and supporter of open source software and development methodologies. Google contributes back to the Open Source community in many ways, including source code, project hosting on Google Code, projects for students including Google Summer of Code and the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, and support for a wide variety of projects, LUGS, and events around the world. Learn more at code.google.com/opensource/
Hewlett-Packard
Silver Sponsor
HP Open Source and Linux solutions are designed to solve your mission-critical IT problems today! We sell over a million Linux servers a year, delivering high performance, scalability, security, storage, and backed by our commitment to the open source community. Learn more about our market leading Linux platforms and Open Source Middleware Stacks at www.hp.com/go/linux. Also be sure to check out our new FossBazaar and Fossology initiatives which are aimed at further encouraging the adoption of Open Source in the enterprise. Our solutions are delivered and supported by over 6500 Open Source and Linux professionals across 160 countries. Come visit us at our booth to hear how HP and the Open Source community are working together.
SpringSource
Silver Sponsor
SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc., (NYSE: VMW) and the leader in Java application infrastructure and management, provides a complete suite of software products that accelerate the entire build, run, manage enterprise Java application lifecycle. SpringSource employs the open source leaders who created and drive innovation for Spring, the de facto standard programming model for enterprise Java applications. SpringSource also employs the Java and Web thought leaders within the Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, Hyperic, Groovy and Grails open source communities. Nearly half of the Global 2000, including many world’s leading retail, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, technology and public sector clients are SpringSource customers. For more information visit: www.springsource.com.
Yahoo!
Silver Sponsor
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. The Yahoo! Developer Network offers Web Services and APIs that make it easy for developers to build applications and mashups that integrate data sources in new ways, making the web a more useful and fun place for everyone. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
cloudera
Bronze Sponsor
Cloudera (www.cloudera.com), the commercial Hadoop company, develops and distributes Hadoop, the open source software that powers the data processing engines of the world's largest and most popular web sites. Founded by leading experts on big data from Facebook, Google, Oracle and Yahoo, Cloudera's mission is to bring the power of Hadoop, MapReduce, and distributed storage to companies of all sizes in the enterprise, Internet and government sectors. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Cloudera has financial backing from Accel Partners, Greylock Partners and angel investors who include Diane Greene (former CEO of VMware), Marten Mickos (former CEO of MySQL), and Jeff Weiner (CEO of LinkedIn).
thawte
Bronze Sponsor
thawte is a leading global Certificate Authority (CA). Our SSL and code signing digital certificates are used globally to secure servers, provide data encryption, authenticate users, protect privacy and ensure online identities go through stringent authentication and verification processes. Our SSL offerings include Extended Validation (EV), Server Gated Cryptography (SGC), SANS, and wildcard certificates. The focus of thawte is to allow companies to establish a trusted relationship with anyone, anywhere on the Internet. thawte is committed to the egalitarian ethos of the Internet and is dedicated to ensuring world-class multi-lingual customer service, and providing outstanding value for money. For more information, go to https://www.thawte.com
Joost
Hackathon Sponsor
Founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, Joost brings video and social interaction together online. All of the video on Joost is professionally produced and streams on-demand to people around the world for free in a high-quality format. Today, Joost has more than 57,000 program elements, including more than 400 television series and 1,200 movie and short film titles, and 18,000 music videos. For more information, visit www.joost.com.
Apache Software Foundation
Community Sponsor
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than sixty-five leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server -- the world's most popular Web server software. Through The ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way", nearly 300 individual Members and 2,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Google, HP, Microsoft, Progress Software, SpringSource, and Yahoo! For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/
Day
Community Sponsor
A leading provider of global content management and infrastructure software, Day Software is the initiator of the industry standards JSR 170 and JSR283, and is leading an industry expert group with members such as IBM, Oracle, Sun and HP. JSR 170 is the first industry standard for content repositories, enabling access of information regardless of the repository location. In 2005, Day donated its Java Content Repository (JCR) to the Apache Software Foundation, forming the Apache Jackrabbit project. Apache Jackrabbit is an attractive option for companies who want to move away from expensive, proprietary legacy repositories, looking for a cost efficient, standards-based alternative.
Func
Community Sponsor
Func develops custom web applications, using open source building blocks. We are strong advocates of open standards. We support the open source community through testing, committing bug fixes, initiating small side projects and financial sponsoring of developers' meetings such as ApacheCon and Dutch Wicket meet-ups. As of 1998 we have been serving a range of customers, focusing more and more on the education and publishing sectors. Func developers are proficient in Wicket, Spring, Hibernate, CXF, Chiba and many other frameworks. We're always on the look-out for skilled developers to join our team.
HALO Worldwide
Community Sponsor
HALO Worldwide is a consulting firm specializing in promotion, publicity, and brand integration programs that span strategic communications and positioning, brand planning and translation, public relations and outreach, and image management. HALO principals have gained a reputation for being among the most competent in the business, leveraging more than 30 years’ combined out-of-the-box thinking, intuitive marketing, and media relations expertise to develop highly effective campaigns across a range of media resources. With a clientele that ranges from startups to blue chip organizations, we are passionate about managing reputations, driving brand awareness and recognition, and developing valued relationships with credibility and gravitas. HALOWorldwide.com/
HotWax Media
Community Sponsor
As the global leader in Apache Open For Business (OFBiz), HotWax Media provides web-based enterprise resource planning (ERP), e-commerce, and business automation consulting services. From enterprise-level e-commerce to warehouse, manufacturing, and financial management, HotWax Media and OFBiz help optimize business processes. Open source is the smart choice today for businesses ranging from small-and medium-sized organizations to global Fortune 100 companies. Using Apache OFBiz, HotWax Media delivers top quality enterprise software for a fraction of the price of outdated, proprietary vendors. For more information visit www.hotwaxmedia.com.
Lucid Imagination
Community Sponsor
Lucid Imagination is the first commercial entity exclusively dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr open source technology. As an active participant in the enormous community using Lucene/Solr, Lucid Imagination offers certified distributions of Lucene and Solr, commercial-grade support, training, high-level consulting and value-added software extensions. The company’s web site will serve as a knowledge portal for the Lucene community, with information and resources to help developers build and deploy Lucene-based solutions in a more efficient and cost-effective manner. The Lucid Imagination founding team consists of several key contributors and committers to the Lucene project, as well as experts in enterprise search application development. A privately held company, Lucid Imagination is based in San Mateo, CA, USA.
Topicus
Community Sponsor
Topicus is an innovative software house with about 150 employees comfortably situated in the historic center of Deventer, the Netherlands. Topicus specializes in supply chain integration, building Software as a Service applications and proces management in finance, healthcare and education. Within each sector Topicus delivers new service concepts utilizing Apache technology such as Wicket, Tomcat, Maven and httpd to the fullest. The last five years Topicus was amongst the 50 fastest growing technology companies in The Netherlands and received the Fast 50 Sustainable Grower award in 2008.
