Laszlo Systems [Diamond Sponsor]: 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.

 

Cynergy Systems [Platinum Sponsor]: Cynergy Systems delivers Web, RIA and Legacy Migration solutions to over 1,400 customers worldwide. Maintaining offices across three continents and leveraging over a decade of experience, Cynergy Systems focuses on the delivery of rich, powerful business applications to customers across dozens of verticals including Healthcare, Manufacturing, Banking, and Governmental Organizations. Partners include Adobe, Microsoft, Sybase, Percussion Software and Jive Software.

IBM [Platinum Sponsor]: IBM is a key supporter of industry standards like AJAX and shows leadership in innovations in this emerging technology through participation in OpenAjax, an open industry collaboration dedicated to developing and expanding AJAX. Leverage the power of IBM on your AJAX development projects. Whether you're looking for free Web-based training , technical articles, or to interact and get your questions answered through forums, you can find all the resources you are looking for on IBM developerWorks.

JackBe [Platinum Sponsor]: JackBe is the leader in Enterprise Mashups. JackBe's Presto is an Enterprise Mashup platform where users create, customize and collaborate for unparalleled efficiency and productivity. Presto allows business units to immediately respond to information needs, saving time through trusted sharing and ultimately providing users with the flexibility needed to create dynamic, reusable mashups. JackBe provides a new user-driven tier of integration technology to power enterprise mashups. JackBe's standards-based Presto mashup platform unites the strengths of AJAX, SOA and existing IT investments to empower enterprise users. The resulting value is increased business unit freedom to access and integrate data and collaboration in a new style featuring rich Web interaction. JackBe's Enterprise Mashup solution turns knowledge workers into "the killer app" every enterprise needs to gain an advantage over the competition.

Backbase [Gold Sponsor]: Backbase is the leading provider of AJAX-based Rich Internet Application (RIA) software and solutions. Backbase software provides a comprehensive AJAX development framework that is based on open standards, is easy to learn by developers, and integrates seamlessly into existing IT environments. Developers use Backbase AJAX software to create rich applications that deliver a superior end-user experience. Founded in 2003, Backbase is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

ICEsoft [Gold Sponsor]: ICEsoft is the leading open source AJAX framework for enterprise Java developers. ICEfaces leverages the entire standards-based Java EE ecosystem of tools and execution environments. Rich enterprise application features are developed in pure Java, and in a pure thin-client model. There are no applets or proprietary browser plug-ins required. ICEfaces applications are JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications, so Java EE application development skills apply directly and Java developers are isolated from doing any JavaScript-related development. ICEfaces is also the only enterprise AJAX framework on the market today that delivers unique AJAX Push capabilities. Discover the power of AJAX Push and create collaborative and dynamic enterprise applications like never before.

Kaazing Corporation [Gold Sponsor]: Kaazing Corporation, headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, was founded for the purpose of delivering the best possible real-time experience for the Internet. Kaazing provides real-time software solutions to customers who really care about their end-user experience when it comes to usability, scalability, and performance. In addition to providing commercial enterprise software that delivers the best Internet real-time experience possible, Kaazing also provides support, training, and consulting services.

Microsoft [Gold Sponsor]: Microsoft technologies enable designers and developers to create next-generation Web experiences. With frameworks like ASP.NET AJAX, you can quickly create pages with sophisticated, responsive user interfaces and more efficient client/server communication by simply adding a few server controls to your pages.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Nexaweb [Gold Sponsor]: 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.

Sun Microsystems [Gold Sponsor]: Sun Microsystems Inc., a creator and industry leading advocate of emerging technologies, is revolutionizing and redefining system-wide management of rich, standards-compliant, Internet applications for the next-generation Web. A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of state-of-the-art, power-efficient servers and storage systems to award-winning, open-source based software offerings. When it comes to Web 2.0 technologies, Sun provides best-of-breed solutions to enterprises and startups worldwide for developing, deploying, and managing the next wave of computing.

TIBCO Software [Gold Sponsor]: TIBCO Software Inc. 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.

Quasar Technologies [Silver Sponsor]: Quasar Technologies is a global provider of Web 2.0 AJAX-based ECP (Enterprise Content Publishing) solutions allowing any type of user to work with high-end print publishing tools in one common platform where users connect and work from anywhere in the world in a virtual, collaborative, real-time environment where all processes are controlled, streamlined and fully automated throughout the entire cycle. Quasar ensures that the extended content value chain from creation to end production is optimized, coordinated and simplified - effectively, efficiently and seamlessly - enabling highly advanced, professional functionalities throughout all facets of the process (design, creation, production, marketing, IT administration, etc.) while eliminating the need for highly skilled users. Quasar prides itself as being an industry leader in technological innovations that minimize business risk and provide substantial ROI.

Rearden Commerce [Silver Sponsor]: Rearden Commerce, Inc., provides the first online personal assistant that helps people quickly find, purchase, and manage the services they need, based on personal preferences and company policies. The Rearden Commerce Personal Assistant provides easy access to the world's largest marketplace for services, instantly connecting people to more than 137,000 merchants. Whether it's booking a flight or a hotel, making a restaurant reservation, finding event tickets, scheduling a conference call or shipping a package, the Rearden Commerce Personal Assistant simplifies the complex services landscape into one user-friendly experience. With Rearden Commerce, the power of the intelligent Web is finally realized. Rearden Commerce is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Web Spiders [Silver Sponsor]: Web Spiders is a global provider of Rich Internet Application (RIA/Flex) development services and systems integration services for independent software vendors and corporations. With our offshore delivery centers in India and account centers in Europe and America, we bridge the offshore-onsite gap enabling our customers to achieve lower cost of ownership, reduce risk and accelerate ’go-to-market’ strategies.