ActiveState is the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl. Over two million developers rely on ActiveState's cross-platform professional development tools, high-quality language distributions, and enterprise language support services.

Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is a leading global provider of innovative microprocessor solutions for computing, communications and consumer electronics markets. Founded in 1969, AMD is dedicated to delivering superior computing solutions based on customer needs that empower users worldwide.

Alfresco's open source enterprise content repository and portlets; built by the team that includes the co-founder/author of Documentum. Alfresco’s modular architecture uses the latest open source Java technologies: Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, MyFaces and groundbreaking Common Internet File System (CIFS) interface for Microsoft file system compatibility, enabling content contribution and scalability.

The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal and financial support for a broad range of open source software projects. The Foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits contributors' potential legal exposure. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License makes it easy for all users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache products.

Apress® is a publishing company established by computer professionals, programmers, and enthusiasts just like you. Apress books are tools that will help you learn new subjects, solve problems effectively, and save time. Practical, instructional, and thought-provoking, Apress books offer the highest quality content, distinctively written with The Expert's Voice™.

Autodesk, Inc. is wholly focused on ensuring that great ideas are turned into reality. With seven million users, Autodesk is the world's leading software and services company for the manufacturing, infrastructure, building, media and entertainment, and wireless data services fields. Autodesk's Infrastructure Solutions Division (ISD) provides solutions that enable the integration of computer-aided design (CAD) and geospatial information system (GIS) data allowing customers to create, manage and share valuable spatial information for better decision-making and improved operational efficiency. By enabling unprecedented access to spatial data throughout a customer's organization, Autodesk helps municipalities, engineering and construction, public works, transportation and utility customers be more productive and provide better services. As a result, customers turn ideas into competitive advantage, become more productive, streamline project efficiency and maximize profits. Founded in 1982, Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California.

Barracuda Networks, Inc., provides powerful, easy-to-use and affordable enterprise-class spam, spyware, virus and IM threat protection solutions. These plug-and-play hardware solutions are built for businesses of all sizes. The company’s flagship products, the Barracuda Spam Firewall and Barracuda Spam Firewall – Outbound Mode, provide spam and virus protection for over 30,000 customers worldwide.

BSD is a family of Open Source operating systems based on Berkeley Unix and available under the commercial-friendly BSD license. The BSD booth will have representatives from the FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and PC-BSD projects as well as the FreeBSD and NetBSD Foundations.

Founded in 1998, Covalent Technologies is the most trusted source for complete enterprise open source solutions. The leading provider of products and services for the Apache Tomcat Application Server, Apache Geronimo Application Server, Apache Axis Web Services Framework, and Apache HTTP, the world’s leading Web server, Covalent is one of the few sources for full commercial support for Apache, Tomcat, Geronimo and Axis on a global basis. Covalent has been the trusted source that Fortune 1000 enterprises turn to when migrating to open source and when deploying new open source initiatives. Covalent currently supports more than 50% of Fortune 500 and 70% of Fortune 100 companies. Customers include, among others: SBC, Pfizer, Morgan Stanley, National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Johnson & Johnson, British Telecom, Fidelity Investments, NASA, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, General Electric, and Bear Stearns. Covalent has assembled the deepest talent pool of Apache experts in the industry and is proud to be one of the most distinguished supporters of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the dominant community for usable open source, and the open source community in general. For more information, visit www.covalent.com.

Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL) is a premier provider of products and services required for customers worldwide to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. Revenue for the last four quarters totaled $56 billion and the company employs approximately 65,200 team members around the globe. Dell, through its direct business model, designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals.

Dice -Look to the tech leader first. Dice is the leading job board for technology professionals. We limit our listings to tech and engineering jobs and then advertise the Dice site extensively to drive qualified job seekers to our site! The result? Your jobs receive nationwide exposure and are filled quickly by qualified candidates.

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation formed to advance the creation, evolution, promotion, and support of the Eclipse Platform and to cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products, capabilities, and services.

Providing the Best IT Solutions for Your Needs! Everest Consultants Inc. is a trusted provider of software & professional services on Open Source technologies in embedded & system software services, application development & maintenance and quality assurance services. Competencies include Linux, Java, J2EE, JSP, EJB, Struts, XML, PERL, MySQL, PHP, Python & Apache. Our quality, delivery and timeliness backed with an excellent track record over the last decade provide a superior return on your investment. Visit our booth or www.everestinc.com to see how Everest Consultants can meet your biggest IT challenges.

Fedora is a set of projects, sponsored by Red Hat and guided by the Fedora Project Board. These projects are developed by a large community of people who strive to provide and maintain the very best in free, open source software and standards. Fedora Core, the central Fedora project, is an operating system and platform, based on Linux, that is always free for anyone to use, modify and distribute, now and forever. It is developed by a large community of people who strive to provide and maintain the very best in free, open source software and standards. Fedora Core is part of the Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat, Inc.

Freespire is a community-driven, Linux-based operating system based on Linspire that combines the best that free, open source software has to offer (community driven, freely distributed, open source code, etc.), but also provides users the choice of including proprietary codecs, drivers and applications as they see fit. Freespire was started by Linspire, which serves as the project maintainer and lead sponsor, and a key objective for Freespire is to serve as a baseline for the Linspire operating system.

Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the way people connect with information. Google's innovations in web search and advertising have made its website a top Internet destination and its brand one of the most recognized in the world. Google maintains the world's largest online index of websites and other content, and Google makes this information freely available to anyone with an Internet connection. Google's automated search technology helps people obtain nearly instant access to relevant information from it vast online index.

Greenplum is the leading provider of high-performance PostgreSQL for the enterprise. Greenplum's Bizgres family of breakthrough database products is poised to revolutionize the way companies use Business Intelligence to gain key competitive advantages in the marketplace, from departmental data marts to multi-terabyte data warehouses. The company sponsors The Bizgres Project, a community effort designed to make PostgreSQL the most robust open source database for data warehousing and BI. For more information about Greenplum, visit www.greenplum.com. For more information on the Bizgres Project, visit www.bizgres.org.

HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing.

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. Linux on System p(TM) provides a business-critical database capable platform for MySQL clients, offering reliability and high-end features such as virtualization, and jaw-dropping performance.

For more than three decades, Intel Corporation has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971. Intel’s core competencies are in the design and manufacture of complex silicon products, and today, Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the ingredients of computers, servers and networking and communications products. Intel has developed architectures for the key areas where silicon is used in next generation networks: PCs and entry-mid range servers (IA-32); database and back-end servers (IA-64); network infrastructure (IXA); wireless handheld clients (PCA). Intel’s products are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems.

Jive Software creates Open Source and commercial applications that improve online collaboration. With a unique set of pure Java, open architecture, and standards-based applications, Jive Software allows companies to build virtual knowledge networks and offers a secure and reliable open alternative to proprietary instant messaging. Customers include Sun, Oracle, IBM, SAP, Symantec and Electronic Arts.

Jive Software creates Open Source and commercial applications that improve online collaboration. With a unique set of pure Java, open architecture, and standards-based applications, Jive Software allows companies to build virtual knowledge networks and offers a secure and reliable open alternative to proprietary instant messaging. Customers include Sun, Oracle, IBM, SAP, Symantec and Electronic Arts.

KySoH is the only company coming from another solar system. Its team landed on earth in the summer of 2005 and brought Tux Droid with them. Tux Droid is the first generation 2.4 GHz wireless robot specially built for Linux®, and offers a completely novel and entertaining way to challenge your programming skills. Following the open source philosophy we intend to keep an open architecture allowing programmers to freely tune and tweak our product to their liking. KySoH wants to become a premiere provider of entertainment solutions for the Linux® and the Free Software community. KySoH offers high quality, funny and unusual products integrating new technologies and dedicated to entertainment. For more information, visit www.tuxisalive.com.

Laszlo Systems is the original developer of OpenLaszlo, the leading open source platform for building and deploying Web 2.0 applications. OpenLaszlo technology has been widely adopted by application and service providers in the consumer, enterprise, education and government markets. Laszlo Systems provides updates, training and support for OpenLaszlo and offers rich-experience web-based digital life applications such as Laszlo Mail, built on OpenLaszlo.

Linuxfest Northwest is presented by volunteers from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia, and draws hundreds of attendees from around the region. It features internationally recognized speakers from well-known open source projects, as well as a variety of interesting exhibits and demonstrations. Admission is free, and all ages are welcome.

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges,export data into various formats and is available in 50 languages.

MindTouch is the leading provider of managed appliance-based wiki solutions enabling simple collaboration and file-sharing for small- to medium-sized businesses. Analysts and customers alike have dubbed the MindTouch MOS a next generation network file server and Intranet that facilitates a simple and easy-to-use means of sharing contextually rich information.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation is charged with the development and promotion of products that further the Foundation's public benefit mission to preserve choice and innovation on the Internet. Millions of people worldwide enjoy a better Web experience with the award-winning, free and open source Mozilla Firefox browser.

No Starch Press publishes the finest in geek entertainment-unique books on technology, with a focus on Open Source, security, hacking, programming, and alternative operating systems. Our titles have personality, our authors are passionate, and our books tackle topics that people care about.

Novell, Inc., (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers Software for the Open Enterprise™. With more than 50,000 customers in 43 countries, Novell helps customers manage, simplify, secure and integrate their technology environments by leveraging best-of-breed, open standards-based software. With over 20 years of experience, more than 5,000 employees, 5,000 partners and support centers around the world, Novell helps customers gain control over their IT operating environment while reducing cost.

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying faint signals from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

ObjectWeb is an international non-profit consortium fostering the development of open-source middleware for business-critical applications: EAI, business intelligence, e-business, clustering, grid, workflow.. It now unites over 60 companies and research laboratories, manages over 90 software components and leads a community of thousands of professionals from around the world. Its industrial-grade alternatives to proprietary products are based on open standards. Its best known projects are JOnAS, JORAM, eXo Platform, SpagoBI and Celtix.

OpenSource Connections is a software consultancy that focuses on helping implement Agile Development software management methodologies. We specialize in open source software development, with a focus on Ruby. We have developed applications ranging from laboratory information management systems to customer rights management systems. Come see our exhibit to talk about how our award-winning consultants can help you deliver on your software and development needs.

Oracle's business is information - how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided the software that lets organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems.

PDXPHP is Portland’s PHP SIG. It enables people to share, meet and learn about PHP and Open Source technologies. The group strives to be a valuable resource for anyone interested in PHP regardless of their skill level or background. Through sharing and communication we foster a creative and successful community of PHP developers.

Pentaho provides a full spectrum of open source Business Intelligence (BI) products from reporting to OLAP to dashboards to data mining. Pentaho’s powerful products support a wide range of business initiatives including sales analysis, customer analysis, financial reporting, predictive analytics, and KPI dashboards, and are highly customizable for customers’ unique requirements.

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges,export data into various formats and is available in 50 languages.

With more than 17 years of development by hundreds of the world's most generous and brilliant minds from the open source community, PostgreSQL is the world's most advanced open source database. With its long time support of an enterprise level feature set including transactions, stored procedures, triggers, and subqueries, PostgreSQL is being used by many of today's most demanding businesses and government agencies.

Powell's Books is the largest independent used and new bookstore in the world. Located in Portland, Oregon, Powell's consists of seven general and specialty bookstores, including Powell's Technical Books. Search all our stores, plus the inventory of three giant warehouses at Powells.com, voted Best of the Web by Forbes magazine.

Scalix is the leading provider of enterprise email, calendaring and collaboration software based on Linux and open source. Scalix allows companies of all sizes to reduce the cost and complexity of their email environment with a richly-featured, reliable and scalable messaging solution that blends seamlessly with both open source and proprietary software. Scalix offers customers flexibility and freedom of choice at all levels of the IT stack from the desktop to email related infrastructure components, helping them achieve independence from vendor, technology and licensing lock-in.

Shopzilla, formerly BizRate.com, is one of the leading shopping search engines, with more than 30 million products from more than 70,000 stores. Every day, Shopzilla refers millions of ready-to-buy consumers to these online stores from Shopzilla.com, BizRate.com, AOL, Lycos and many others. Shopzilla is a stand-alone operating unit owned by The E.W. Scripps Company.

Simula Labs simplifies how businesses adopt and leverage proven Apache Software Foundation projects including LogicBlaze FUSE, a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) platform based on ActiveMQ and ServiceMix, and Mergere Maestro, a build platform based on Maven and Continuum, through its unique, subscription-based CoRE Network.

Solid™; is the only company that provides a fast, always-on database that is affordable. This compact solution is easy to deploy, use and maintain. Solid has been delivering database products for more than thirteen years. More than 3,000,000 Solid™ databases are deployed worldwide in telecommunications networks, enterprise applications and embedded software.

Splunk is the creator of the world’s first search engine for fast moving IT data. From one place you can navigate across logs and other types of IT data from any service, application or device regardless of format or source. Now diagnosing and resolving problems is faster and more precise.

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 OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org, GNOME, Grid Engine, java.net, Jini, JXTA, NetBeans, and Mozilla.

The 451 Group is an independent technology industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. The company’s analysts provide critical and timely insight into the market and competitive dynamics of innovation in emerging technology segments. Clients of the company – at vendor, investor, service-provider and end-user organizations – rely on 451 insight to support both strategic and tactical decision-making for competitive advantage.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. EFF believes protecting innovation is central to advancing our freedom and has fought to clear the way for encryption, VoIP, file-sharing software, open source HDTV tools, and much more.

The Open For Business Project is a Java open source enterprise automation software project developed by a global community of professional developers. It can be used to develop ERP, CRM, E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM, MRP, and other large-scale business applications and is compatible with all major commercial and open source databases and operating systems.

The Open Technology Business Center (OTBC) is a business accelerator dedicated to supporting the growth of early-stage technology startups in Oregon. Based in the heart of Oregon’s open source community, OTBC is uniquely positioned to provide entrepreneurs with access to community leaders and industry experts. OTBC’s mission is to help entrepreneurs and small companies accelerate their market entry through customized business coaching and guidance, extensive networking opportunities, education resources, and flexible office facilities. OTBC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Perl is a stable, cross-platform, open source programming language used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors. The Perl Foundation is a non-profit corporation established to advance the use and development of the Perl programming language.

The Personal Telco Project promotes and builds public wireless networks through community support and education. We have a vibrant volunteer organization in Portland, Oregon with two goals - to cover the city in free wireless networking and to build out a customer-owned data communications infrastructure. We believe such a network empowers individuals and promotes freedom of information.

The POSSE (Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs) is a local organization of entrepreneurs who rely on and develop OSS to help businesses succeed. POSSE provides local businesses with access to a wealth of qualified options for meeting their open source software needs. All POSSE members are established companies.

The Pragmatic Bookshelf features books written by developers for developers. The titles continue the well-known Pragmatic Programmer style, and continue to garner awards and rave reviews. As development gets more and more difficult, the Pragmatic Programmers will be there with more titles and products to help programmers stay on top of their game.

The TeX Users Group (TUG) was founded in 1980 for educational and scientific purposes, to provide an organization for those who have an interest in typography and font design, and are users of the TeX typesetting system invented by Donald Knuth. TUG is run by and for its members and represents the interests of TeX users worldwide. It is almost entirely member-supported, so if you use any of the TeX system programs (TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, Metafont, MetaPost, Texinfo) please consider joining TUG (or another TeX user group). The membership benefits include our journals TUGboat and The PracTeX Journal, as well as TeX Live, proTeXt, and other software distributions.

Ticketmaster is the world's leading ticketing company, providing ticket sales and distribution through www.ticketmaster.com, one of the largest e-commerce sites on the Internet; approximately 6,500 retail Ticket Center outlets; 19 worldwide telephone call centers; and a broad online and offline marketing network. Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2006, Ticketmaster serves more than 9,000 clients worldwide across multiple event categories, providing exclusive ticketing services for hundreds of leading arenas, stadiums, performing arts venues, museums, and theaters, and sold 119 million tickets valued at $6 billion in 2005. Ticketmaster is headquartered in West Hollywood, California and is an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI).

USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems Association. For 30 years, it has been the leading community for engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world. USENIX conferences are the essential meeting grounds for the presentation of technical advances in all aspects of computing systems.

Founded in 1999, Virtuas is an open source software consultancy providing strategic and innovative solutions for organizations worldwide. Delivering technology-enabled solutions to solve complex business problems, our team of industry experts applies proven methodologies and innovative, industry-adopted solutions to help businesses realize measurable ROI on open source adoption and integration.

VMware, Inc. is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. Virtual infrastructure provides a layer of abstraction between the computing, storage and networking hardware and the software that runs on it. VMware Infrastructure simplifies IT so companies leverage their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond faster.

Webtide is the global expert in implementing scalable web 2.0 projects using Ajax technology. The company is a joint venture between Exist, which is a premier software development company supporting open source technology; and Mortbay Consulting, the creators of Jetty, the highly regarded open source Java web container. Webtide engineers are core developers or contributors to Apache Geronimo, JBoss, Maven, ActiveMQ, Cargo, Agila, ServiceMix, Jetspeed, WADI, and a host of other open source projects. Webtide’s products include Jetty6, HighTide and RipTide; and its services include Training, Development and Support.

WSO2 is an open source middleware company founded by pioneers in Web services and of members of the Apache Software Foundation Web services community. We deliver a new, entirely open source middleware stack that is optimized for Web services and SOA and built on Apache Axis2. WSO2's first products are the WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS) and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), which are built on the WSO2 Web Services Framework. The company maintains operations in the United States, United Kingdom and Sri Lanka.

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! seeks to provide online products and services essential to users' lives, and offers a full range of tools and marketing solutions for businesses to connect with Internet users around the world. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP is used by more than twenty-two million Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic web applications. Deployed at more than 15,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products is a comprehensive platform for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications.