ActiveState is the leader in open language programming software and services for crossplatform development, Web services, and email security. ActiveState's key technologies are Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT for Linux, Visual Studio .NET, and other popular platforms. www.ActiveState.com.

Affero enables recognition and reward for valuable contributions to online communities. Services combine a rating, commerce and reputation system whereby individuals can rate the value of community contributions as well as make donations on behalf of the efforts extended by community participants. Reputations are tracked for others to see and use in future interactions

Apple Developer Connection (ADC) programs offer a full range of services for new and experienced developers. The programs provide convenient, affordable access to the tools and technical support needed to work efficiently and productively-reducing development time and costs. The support doesn't end with the development process. ADC programs provide critical business information and comarketing resources to help successfully market and distribute products.

Best Practical Solutions, LLC , is the acknowledged expert in providing software support and custom developed extensions for RT, the open-source ticketing system. RT, an industrial-strength platform, supports efficient workflow by tracking projects, issues and requests, from inception to resolution, in a community of users. The company is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Since 1997, bioinformatics professionals around the world have relied on the BioInform Newsletter for exclusive, up-to-the-minute coverage of trends in life sciences computing. These elite practitioners know there is no substitute for the behind-the-scenes reporting and expert analysis delivered every week in BioInform.

CollabNet is the leading provider of solutions for collaborative software development, combining a Web-based software application with a suite of consulting services. Using these solutions, customers can collaborate on development projects within an enterprise, with customers, business partners, or with third party developer organizations such as industry specific or open source communities. CollabNet enables corporations to reduce costs and increase revenues by bringing different project team members together, regardless of their location. Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, established CollabNet in July 1999. For more information, see http://www.collab.net.

Covalent Technologies, Inc., See everything Apache 2.0 has to offer and more with Covalent’s Enterprise Ready Server, the first comprehensive enterprise solution for the Apache Web server. It allows centralized browser-based management of hundreds of servers, provides enterprise-grade Web server security and manageability, and is based on Apache 2.0 for proven reliability, scalability, and extensibility.

Daemon News , is a comprehensive resource for BSD, operating in close contact with the community. Established in 1998, Daemon News provides a monthly online publication, Daily BSD News, a quarterly hardcopy publication, a community based support forum, and a retail outlet called BSDMall.com for all BSD related merchandise. Daemon News also publishes Darwin, the Open Source Version of Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Unix Utilities for Mac OS X.

DevelopMentor, a leading, developer-training company, has been providing educational resources for the community since 1993. DevelopMentor’s technical team authors and delivers hands-on, instructor-led training courses on .NET, JAVA, and XML/Web services. DevelopMentor presents their courses in their training centers in Los Angeles, Boston, and London, and locations worldwide. Most courses are available for delivery at on-site locations too.

EFF is a legal advocacy group working to protect civil liberties as they relate to new technologies. Among our various activities, EFF educates politicians and the public, undertakes court cases preserving individuals' rights, engages the press regularly, and publishes a comprehensive archive of digital civil liberties information at our website: http://www.eff.org.

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, promotes the right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development of Free Software---particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants. The FSF helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of software freedom.

Put your finger on the pulse of the new biology. Genome Technology Magazine is the only monthly magazine focused on the technology and business of genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics. Its readers are an elite audience of genomics scientists and technology professionals worldwide. Genome Technology takes you inside the minds, the methods, and the machines shaping the new biology.

GenomeWeb.com has quickly become the leading source of genomics news for tens of thousands of life science professionals. With updates throughout the business day, GenomeWeb.com's team of expert journalists delivers high-value, forward-looking reports on the business and technology of genomics.

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, 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.

JBoss Group, is a services company dedicated to support, training, consulting and documentation around the open source JBoss J2EE-based web application server. Based in Atlanta, GA, JBoss Group regroups core JBoss programmers around the world, supporting the continued development of and offering high-level services around the JBoss server.

SSC Publications, publisher of Linux Journal, is an established leader in the Linux, Open Source and UNIX fields. Now celebrating its eighth year of publication, Linux Journal is the premier magazine of the Linux community. To learn more about LJ and other SSC resources visit Linux Journal online.

Maguma provides companies with a leading development environment for the rapid production of valuable and complex web-based solutions in PHP. In this way Maguma supports the usage of the Open-Source scripting language PHP in the enterprise environment. The company has its headquarters in Bozen, Italy and a sales office in Munich, Germany. http://www.maguma.com/

The NetBeans Open Source Project , consists of the NetBeans Platform, and modules that support programming in Java and other languages. Combined with the Platform, these make up the NetBeans IDE. All of the software available from www.netbeans.org is Open Source.

New Riders publishes technology resources that challenge the assumptions of today's web design and development professionals, taking their talents to the next level. New Riders is home to the Voices That Matter, which include industry leaders, our authors, the communities we publish to, and our customers.

O'Reilly Network is the Online Resource for Open and Emerging Technologies. You trust O'Reilly to help you do your job more efficiently and effectively. And you can trust O'Reilly Network to deepen your knowledge and technical skills. O'Reilly Network offers information beyond O'Reilly books, from thought-provoking articles to extensive, searchable resources. It's your essential technology site before and after conferences: www.oreillynet.com.

OpenUmbrella is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the adoption and use of open source software and technology. OU is building open communities and taking OS to the next level by creating curriculum and training; developing marketing, public awareness, and outreach campaigns; and promoting the advancement of women in OS technology.

The Open Source Development Network. Inc., is the leading news, collaboration and distribution community for IT and Open Source development, implementation and innovation. OSDN is the home of several popular Web sites, including the award winning news discussion site Slashdot.org and the world's largest collaborative software development site, SourceForge.net.

Stonehenge Consulting Services, is the premiere worldwide, on-site and open enrollment Perl Traning company, brought to you by the people who literally wrote the book on Perl. Led by Just another Perl hacker, Randal Schwartz, we deliver the classic Learning Perl course, as well as advanced and customized courses.

Sun Microsystems has held open systems to be the cornerstone of its business philosophy since the beginning. From desktops to supercomputers, and from development tools to productivity suites, Sun is dedicated to delivering hardware and software based on open industry standards. Today, through shared technology innovation, Sun's continued commitment to Open Source is reflected in its leadership and key contributions to the many projects including OpenOffice.org, GNOME, Grid Engine, JXTA, NetBeans, and Mozilla.

The Perl Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code. The Foundation is a unit of the Yet Another Society (YAS), a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in Holland, Michigan.

The San Diego Linux Users Group , brings Linux and Open Source to serve the San Diego business community. SDLUG's regional technical experts present at Wednesday monthly meetings, Saturday Technical Workshops and Installfests. Most recently SDLUG finished the Linux Business Series, assisting San Diego businesses in implementing Open Source technology.

Zope Corporation provides high-end custom solutions for media & telcom firms, government, military, newspapers, medical & educational institutions, Internet businesses and Fortune 1000 companies. The Company provides consulting, managed hosting, technology partnerships, support and training. At its core is Zope, a unique software system which is at once a high-performance application server, a web server, and a content management system. Straight out of the box, it is a complete and self-contained solution, including a robust, scalable object database, web services architecture, with powerful programming capabilities.