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2009 EAST SPONSORS

CA Inc.

CA Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) is the world's leading independent information technology (IT) management software company. We help companies manage IT to better perform, compete, innovate and grow their businesses. With our Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and technology, customers can unify IT and simplify the management of complex computing environments.

Denodo

Denodo, the recognized innovator of Enterprise Data Mashup (EDM) software, delivers a single platform that combines data integration and web process automation to enable real-time Data Mashups of internal, external/Web, structured and unstructured data using a non-intrusive and light-weight approach that is significantly less expensive, faster and more flexible than traditional approaches. Leading Companies use Denodo to create data services for SOA, Single Customer Views, Competitive & Business Intelligence and B2B Web Automation. For more information visit www.denodo.com.

Intel

Intel’s SOA Products Group offers SOA Expressway- a soft-appliance deployed to address common XML and SOA problems such as acceleration, security, service mediation and service governance. Enables gateway security for Cloud, SaaS, and enterprise SOA scenarios. Available for standard operating systems such as Windows and Linux and requires no special custom hardware other than standard OEM servers.

Software AG

Software AG is the world’s largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. Our 4,000 global enterprise customers achieve business results faster by modernizing, integrating and automating their IT systems and processes. As a result, they rapidly build measurable business value and meet changing business demands. Based on our solutions, organizations are able to liberate and govern their data, systems, applications, processes and services – achieving new levels of business flexibility.

Our leading product portfolio includes solutions for high performance data management, developing and modernizing applications, enabling service-oriented architecture, and improving business processes. By combining our technology with industry expertise and best practices experience, our customers improve and differentiate their businesses – faster.

Sybase

Sybase is the industry leader in delivering mission-critical enterprise software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. Sybase iAnywhere provides a comprehensive platform and set of solutions to mobilize data and business processes. Enterprises can extend their information securely and make it useful for people anywhere using virtually any device including iPhone. iAnywhere Mobile Office extends Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange to iPhone users for a complete enterprise solution that supports email, calendaring, tasks and contacts with corporate directory lookup.

2008 WEST SPONSORS

3Tera

3Tera is innovator of cloud and utility computing services simplifying the deployment and scaling of Web applications. 3Tera's AppLogic grid OS enables true utility computing services to remove the cost and complexity associated with infrastructure, scaling and on-demand resource provisioning.

Active Endpoints

Active Endpoints (www.activevos.com) is the leading developer of visual orchestration systems. VOS empowers line of business project teams to create applications using services and industry standards, making their businesses more agile and effective. Active Endpoints’ ActiveVOS promotes mass adoption of SOA-enabled applications by focusing on accelerating project delivery time with a standards-based, easy to use system. Active Endpoints is headquartered in Waltham, MA with development facilities in Shelton, CT.

AppSense

AppSense is the leading provider of user environment management solutions for the enterprise. User environment management enables the configuration and personalization of virtual, standard desktops by treating user specific data as a separate layer of the desktop. This user layer is applied as needed and is accessible in any environment. Keeping user data separate means it is no longer tied to a specific machine and so can be applied to any desktop environment when needed. In this way, the user experience remains consistent and predictable while the corporate desktop is standardized and delivery automated. Companies such as Citi, WellSpan, Bank of America, Clifford Chance and HP are using AppSense technology in their virtual environments today. See www.appsense.com for more info.

Certeon

Certeon’s aCelera Virtual Appliance software is the industry’s first and only virtual appliance to deliver acceleration, virtualization and manageability when remotely accessing applications throughout a distributed enterprise. aCelera Virtual Appliances reduce application response time over the WAN by more than 95% without proprietary hardware appliances. aCelera is flexible and easy to deploy delivering faster, more scalable applications, and enabling greater user productivity. For more information, visit www.certeon.com/ or call 781-425-5200.

Cordys

Cordys is a global provider of software for business process innovation. The industry-leading Cordys Business Operations Platform (BOP) consists of a complete Suite for next generation Business Process Management (BPMS), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and an open, integrated set of Tools & Technologies including Composite Application framework (CAF), Master Data Management (MDM) and a SOA grid that enables Cloud Computing. The Cordys platform empowers customers to dramatically improve the speed of change, fundamentally altering the way they innovate their Business Operations to achieve a true customer-centric philosophy. Global 2000 companies worldwide have selected Cordys to achieve business performance improvements such as increased productivity, reduced time to market, higher security and faster response to ever-changing market demands. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Cordys is a global company with offices in the USA, the UK, Germany, China, India and Israel.

DataDirect Technologies

DataDirect Technologies is the software industry's only comprehensive provider of software for connecting the world's most critical business applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven and emerging standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect® products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC™ and ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. More than 300 leading independent software vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on DataDirect Technologies to simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems and to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration. DataDirect Technologies is an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS). For more information about Data Direct, visit www.datadirect.com/

EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

FreedomOSS

FreedomOSS brings an elaborate expertise in SOA to your business. As a services organization, we collaborate with customers to design a SOA blueprint to fit the customer’s needs. When you have a SOA problem, FreedomOSS is the top choice for your complete solution. FreedomOSS is focused on the practical implementation of SOA using Open Source solutions. Our architects and engineers are committed to building stable, scalable, and blazingly fast systems. FreedomOSS includes 150 skilled technical resource professionals who are strategically organized around various Centers of Excellence. For more information, please visit www.freedomoss.com, or call 877-828-8987.

Intel

Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Intel(R) XML Software Products help enhance productivity of XML and SOA application development by providing comprehensive, high performance XML processing libraries that are easy to use and easy to integrate into the existing SOA and XML environments. http://www.intel.com/software/xml

Intel SOA Products Group

Intel SOA Products division is part of Intel's Software and Solutions Group, a worldwide Intel organization with a strategic focus on enabling technologies. The SOA Products division delivers innovative platform technologies that are optimized for speed and performance through Intel's multi-core processors and servers. Learn more: http://www.intel.com/software/soae

LynuxWorks

LynuxWorks, leader in embedded software, provides open and reliable real–time operating systems and tools including the open-source BlueCat® Linux® and the LynxOS RTOS family, meeting the needs for the highest level of embedded software security. Our LynxSecure® separation kernel uses the space and time partitioning features of LynxOS-178® safety–critical RTOS to provide the foundation for building highly secure systems utilizing the MILS (Multiple Independent Levels of Security) architecture and is designed for certification to Common Criteria EAL–7 as well as DO–178B level A.

Nastel

Nastel is a market leader in providing solutions for transaction and application performance management. Nastel’s AutoPilot Suite ensures the successful completion of over one billion transactions every day. Some of the world's largest banks, brokerages, financial institutions, retail chains, insurance providers and manufacturing companies today trust their vital business applications to AutoPilot. AutoPilot’s powerful built-in Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine enables IT teams to rapidly detect, isolate, resolve and proactively prevent costly performance bottlenecks and failures in critical business transactions and composite applications relying on SOA and middleware infrastructures. Nastel, founded in 1994, is headquartered in New York, has offices in the U.S., Latin America and Europe and a growing network of resellers and partners around the world. For more information about Nastel, visit www.nastel.com/

Netmagic Solutions

Netmagic Solutions, a leading Managed Services Provider, offers 24x7 Remote Infrastructure Monitoring and Management (RIMM) Services to businesses worldwide. Netmagic’s proven framework of people, process and tools enables enterprises to improve operational efficiencies in their business while increasing customer satisfaction. A range of offerings including InfraMonitor, InfraInsight, InfraManage and InfraAudit can be customized to fit the requirements of companies deploying virtualization and adopting public clouds. Request a 30-day trial by sending an email to rimsales@netmagicsolutions.com

OpenSpan

About OpenSpan, Inc. Global 2000 enterprises leverage the OpenSpan Platform to integrate applications, service-enable legacy systems, automate business processes, extend functionality and build new composite applications in order to realize immediate value on their IT investments. OpenSpan and its partners utilize the company’s unique approach to integration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments and increase enterprise desktop productivity. OpenSpan received the 2008 SIIA CODiE Award for Software Newcomer of the Year, the 2008 Editors’ Choice Award from Redmond magazine and the 2007 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. A venture-backed company, OpenSpan is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. www.openspan.com/

Platform Computing

Platform Computing is a pioneer and the global leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) management software. The company delivers integrated software solutions that enable organizations to improve time-to-results and reduce computing costs. Many of the world’s largest companies rely on Platform to accelerate compute or data intensive applications and manage cluster and grid systems. Platform has over 2,000 global customers and strategic relationships with Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat and SAS, along with the industry’s broadest support for HPC applications. Building on 16 years of market leadership, Platform continues to define the HPC market. Visit http://www.platform.com/.

QuantumXML

Can high-performance XML be sexy? QuantumXML, the world’s fastest XML software, speeds through typical SOA transactions 10x to 100x faster than any other existing technology. You’re right, that doesn’t sound sexy. But, think of your Data Center running at a fraction of its current power and cooling costs. Imagine the possibilities; surplus processing power, a healthy bump up in the bottom line, and doing your part to save the environment. Sounding more attractive? Kick it up another notch by monetizing your web services. Visit us at the 2008 SOA World Conference and take our test drive challenge. www.quantumxml.com/

Red Hat

Red Hat is the world's most trusted open source provider. Ranked first for value in enterprise software for four consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. We offer enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining the leading open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management, and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. We also offer support, training, and consulting services worldwide to help enterprises take full advantage of the value of open source technology.

RightScale

RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management, provides a Web-based cloud management platform and support services. Our system enables companies to quickly create hosted solutions running on cloud computing providers that are scalable, reliable, easy to manage, and affordable. RightScale's core offerings include: Automated system management, pre-packaged and re-usable components, service expertise and best practices. For more information visit www.RightScale.com.

Sensedia

Sensedia offers products that enable enterprises to manage and reuse their SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and software development assets. Sensedia makes SOA make sense by reducing duplicated development, accelerating the return on investment and improving SOA governance through the identification, creation, management and quality analysis of assets. The company has a history of success cases, large clients and mature products that are easily customized to meet clients' specific needs. www.sensedia.com

Symantec

The award-winning streaming technology of AppStream, now part of Symantec, reduces administrative overhead, costs, maintenance, and security concerns associated with managing applications and software on multiple endpoints. Its pull-based, on-demand software distribution platform combines the benefits of server-based computing (self-service access and centralized management and control) and distributed PC computing (disconnected application use and distributed processing), providing a "best of both worlds" solution. Software deployment and management via streaming is perfect for remote delivery because it only provides the application functions that an end-user needs, when those functions are needed, rather than delivering the entire application unnecessarily in advance. Applications become highly portable between machines and do not conflict with each other or with pre-existing, conventionally-installed software. For more information, visit www.appstream.com.

Tripwire

Tripwire helps over 6,000 enterprises worldwide reduce security risk, attain compliance and increase operational efficiency across virtual and physical environments. With its industry leading configuration assessment and change auditing software solutions, IT organizations achieve and maintain configuration control. Tripwire is headquartered in Portland, Ore. with offices worldwide For more information, visit http://www.tripwire.com/.

VMware

VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and enable cloud computing on and off premise. With 2007 revenues of $1.3 billion, more than 120,000 customers and nearly 18,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is majority-owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) and on the web at http://www.vmware.com/

Web Age Solutions

Web Age Solutions is a leading provider of technology mentoring and education to the Fortune 500. Our "Preferred Vendor" status with these global leaders is a result of our highly progressive approach to knowledge transfer and relentless pursuit of customer satisfaction. While many of our competitors are just now getting their feet wet with SOA, we have been delivering SOA training and mentoring since 2003. Moving well beyond theoretical discussions of SOA, we have a deep library of practical SOA curriculum backed by hands-on experience.

Web Age understands that unique business processes are integrated into every IT strategy. We have the expertise to deliver knowledge transfer programs that are tailored to your organization's approach to SOA. Your business is unique. Your adoption of SOA is unique. Your SOA education program should be too. For more information about Web Age Solutions, visit www.webagesolutions.com

WSO2

WSO2 is an open source technology company building an integrated yet entirely modular SOA platform. Founded by pioneers in Web services and open source, WSO2 engineers contribute heavily to many key Apache Web services projects. In addition to building core components in Apache, WSO2 creates lightweight Web services middleware for your SOA deployments. With industry-leading performance, WSO2 products address service creation, connection, composition and governance.
WSO2 also offers support, training and consultancy services that are designed to help customers throughout the entire life cycle of their SOA projects. From project inception to development to going into production, WSO2 is your ideal partner in ensuring 100% project success. http://wso2.com/

Zeus Technology

Zeus Technology delivers the only fully certified VMware Virtual Appliance and Load balancer software available today. Zeus Technology offers smarter, faster, highly scalable and energy efficient Application Delivery software that sits natively in the virtual datacenter or the cloud. “Hardware is Too Heavy For the Cloud”

2008 EAST SPONSORS

Software AG

Software AG is the world's largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. Our 4,000 global customers achieve measurable business results by modernizing and automating their IT systems and rapidly building new systems and processes to meet growing business demands.

Our industry-leading product portfolio includes best-in-class solutions for managing data, enabling service oriented architecture, and improving business processes. By combining proven technology with industry expertise and best practices, our customers improve and differentiate their businesses - faster.

Software AG - Get There Faster For more information about Software AG, visit www.softwareag.com/

TIBCO Software

TIBCO Software is a leading business integration and process management software company that enables real-time business. TIBCO has delivered the value of real-time business, what TIBCO calls The Power of Now®, to over 3,000 customers around the world and in a wide variety of industries. TIBCO provides innovative software that enables interoperability between applications and information sources, coordinates processes that span systems and people, and helps companies sense and respond to events and opportunities more quickly and with more certainty and control.

TIBCO provides a comprehensive set of standards-based software that helps organizations achieve the benefits of real-time business in a way that not only leverages all of their existing assets, but can actually increase their effectiveness and value. TIBCO's software is designed to help organizations pursue and benefit from initiatives in three key areas: service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM) and business optimization. TIBCO's software is modular and interoperable, so organizations can start small, by quickly solving specific problems, while taking advantage of a strategic approach that lets them more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively implement new solutions in the future. For more information about TIBCO Software, visit www.tibco.com/

2007 WEST SPONSORS

Active Endpoints

Active Endpoints is the leading provider of SOA orchestration solutions that enable organizations to build and deploy composite, process-driven information systems based on WS-BPEL, the SOA orchestration standard. From open source to mission-critical deployments, Active Endpoints allows users quickly adapt to evolving customer demands by reducing the cost of integration, leveraging infrastructure investments, and enabling the sharing of business processes with customers, partners, and suppliers. More ISVs, financial services, government, telecommunications, high technology, and retail organizations use Active Endpoints' solutions than any other BPEL technology. Headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, Active Endpoints is privately held. For more information about Active Endpoints, visit www.active-endpoints.com

BEA Systems, Inc.

BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. BEA® Enterprise 360° is the industry's most advanced approach for building a Liquid Enterprise™. This comprehensive offering combines our product technologies, people, best practices, and broad network of partners to deliver maximum business value to our customers. BEA Enterprise 360° gives our customers the ability to harness the convergence of:

• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Business Process Management (BPM)
• Enterprise Social Computing

Customers rely on market-leading BEA AquaLogic®, WebLogic®, and Tuxedo® product families to reduce IT complexity and leverage existing resources, while improving cost structures and growing new revenue streams with new services. For more information about BEA Systems, Inc., visit http://www.bea.com/

Laszlo Systems

Laszlo Systems is the original developer of the open source platform OpenLaszlo, and provider of Rich Internet Applications and services that advance the Web experience. OpenLaszlo is an XML-native foundation for building next-generation Web applications that increase customer retention, conversion and brand loyalty. Laszlo provides comprehensive support services, education, and commercial application modules so that any company can easily make the move to Rich Internet Applications. For more information about Laszlo Systems, visit www.laszlosystems.com

Nexaweb

Nexaweb's Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions enable enterprises to rapidly deploy Richer, Thinner, Faster applications over the Web. Specifically, applications built with Nexaweb deliver the high performance and robust functionality of client/server software with the universal reach, no-install deployment and centralized management of browser-based applications. With Nexaweb, building enterprise-strength RIA solutions using AJAX and Java UI applications that access legacy and service-oriented data systems is simple. And because it's done in a unified declarative XML development environment, it doesn't require re-writing code. Only Nexaweb's comprehensive Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions are backed by an established methodology and reference architecture proven by more than 5,000 successful global deployments. For more information about Nexaweb, visit www.nexaweb.com

TIBCO provides a comprehensive set of standards-based software that helps organizations achieve the benefits of real-time business in a way that not only leverages all of their existing assets, but can actually increase their effectiveness and value. TIBCO's software is designed to help organizations pursue and benefit from initiatives in three key areas: service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM) and business optimization. TIBCO's software is modular and interoperable, so organizations can start small, by quickly solving specific problems, while taking advantage of a strategic approach that lets them more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively implement new solutions in the future. For more information about TIBCO Software, visit www.tibco.com/

2007 EAST SPONSORS

IBM

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 IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions, and technologies that help enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage to increase the flexibility of their business processes, strengthen their underlying IT infrastructure and retain and reuse their existing assets. Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) from IBM is the answer. For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com/soa

Parasoft

Parasoft is the leading provider of innovative solutions for automating software test and analysis and for establishing software error prevention practices as an integrated part of the software development lifecycle. Parasoft products and services enable software development and IT organizations to significantly improve visibility and control over the quality, costs and schedules of their software projects through the practice of Automated Error Prevention (AEP). Parasoft's easy-to-use, scalable and customizable software error prevention solutions span the complete software development lifecycle and automatically test complex software systems from all relevant perspectives, from the Java, C/C++, and/or .NET code at the implementation layer, to the Web service / SOA at the messaging layer, to the Web front end. Parasoft has more than 10,000 clients worldwide, including Boeing, Cisco, Disney, Ericsson, Fidelity, IBM, Lehman Brothers, Lockheed, Lexis-Nexis, Sabre Holdings, SBC and Yahoo. Founded in 1987, Parasoft is a privately-held company headquartered in Monrovia, CA. For more information about Parasoft, visit www.parasoft.com/jsp/home.jsp

webMethods

Software AG and webMethods have come together to create the world's largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. Our 4,000 global customers achieve measurable business results by modernizing and automating their IT systems and rapidly building new systems to meet growing business demands. Our industry-leading product portfolio includes best-in-class solutions for managing data, enabling service oriented architecture, and improving business processes. By combining proven technology with industry expertise and best practices, our customers improve and differentiate their businesses – faster.

Software AG and webMethods -- the Power of Two. For more information about webMethods, visit www.webmethods.com

Active Endpoints

Active Endpoints is the leading provider of SOA orchestration solutions that enable organizations to build and deploy composite, process-driven information systems based on WS-BPEL, the SOA orchestration standard. From open source to mission-critical deployments, Active Endpoints allows users quickly adapt to evolving customer demands by reducing the cost of integration, leveraging infrastructure investments, and enabling the sharing of business processes with customers, partners, and suppliers. More ISVs, financial services, government, telecommunications, high technology, and retail organizations use Active Endpoints’ solutions than any other BPEL technology. Headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, Active Endpoints is privately held. For more information about Active Endpoints, visit www.active-endpoints.com.

Sybase

Sybase is the largest global enterprise software company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information from the data center to the point of action. Our open, cross-platform solutions securely deliver information anytime, anywhere, enabling customers to create an information edge.

Sybase was first to deliver an enterprise-class DBMS on Linux in 1999 and today provides the most comprehensive combination of products and services supporting Linux in the industry. Our WorkSpace product is one of the first SOA integrated modeling, data management, and mobilization development tool. For more information about Sybase, visit http://www.sybase.com/

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