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The speaker lineup at POSSCON is world-class.
POSSCON turned out to be a great event. Big thanks to Jeffrey Hammond, Lee Congdon, Mark Anzani and Deb Bryant for a great AM of panel discussion
Thanks to Matt Asay for moderating our panel at POSSCON. Well worth the trip to South Carolina. Great regional event.
The synergy between developers, business people, and teachers makes POSSCON pretty unique, I haven't really seen this anywhere else.
It was very nicely run and I think you did a bang-up job. You should all be proud of what you did.
This is like nothing you've ever seen before. You can look at the pictures, you can watch the videos... but just like a concert, you have to be there.
Speakers
Scott McNealyCo-FounderSun Microsystems
Larry AugustinCEOSugarCRM
Chris AniszczykOpen Source ManagerTwitter
Stephen A. Brodsky, Ph.D.Distinguished Engineer, Architect Big DataIBM
W. Douglas Maughan, Ph.D.DirectorDepartment of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Division, Cyber Security Division
Sponsors
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IT-oLogy
IT-oLogy is a non profit collaboration of businesses, academic institutions and organizations dedicated to growing the IT talent pipeline and advancing the IT profession. Promote IT. Teach IT. Grow IT.
IBM
IBM is an industry leader helping governments move toward greater openness and innovation. Our commitment and perspective on intellectual property, open standards, and open source software emerges from our experience in the marketplace and, equally important, from the direction in which we see information technology taking the larger society.
Rackspace
Rackspace® Hosting is the service leader in cloud computing and founder of OpenStack™, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Dedicated and Public Cloud.
Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless voice and 3G network. A leader in wireless voice and data services, the company built the nation’s first wide-area wireless broadband network, delivered the nation’s first wireless consumer 3G multimedia service and is building and plans to launch the first large-scale 4G LTE network in the United States in 38 markets and more than 60 airports by the end of 2010.
Engine Yard
Engine Yard is the leading Platform as a Service (PaaS). With deep expertise in Ruby on Rails and PHP, combined with powerful orchestration, deep community involvement and world-class service, Engine Yard empowers businesses to build and run cloud-based applications easily and cost-effectively.
TM Floyd
TM Floyd & Company (TMF) is an Information Technology consulting group dedicated to providing innovative and cost-effective IT solutions. Our goal is to be the insurance industry's preferred strategic partner for IT initiatives. With more than 30 years of experience and working relationships with leading insurance services firms, TMF has the know-how and connections needed to direct the future of the insurance industry.
SUSE
SUSE is a leading provider of enterprise Linux solutions that increase agility, reduce cost and manage complexity. With a portfolio centered around SUSE Linux Enterprise, the most interoperable platform for mission-critical computing, SUSE enables the delivery of computing services across physical, virtual and cloud environments. For more information, visit www.suse.com.
Alfresco
Alfresco is how great businesses share, organize and protect their content. Alfresco's community includes thousands of customers, partners and developers in 55 countries across the globe. Founded in 2005, Alfresco is headquartered in London, with US headquarters in Atlanta.
Shadow-Soft
Shadow-Soft is a leading provider of Open Source, Cloud Computing and other market disruptive solutions for the enterprise. We combine our expertise and investment in these technologies to help commercial, educational, and government customers select and implement the best Open Source solutions in the market including the consulting services to guide and migrate our customers.
Benefitfocus
Benefitfocus is the largest benefits technology provider in the U.S. More than 15 million consumers, 300,000 employers and 60,000 brokers use our cloud-based platform to shop, enroll, manage and exchange all their benefits in one place.
Google
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets.
HP
We do a lot more than talk about open source and our track record is a clear indication that we are seriously committed to the growth, maturity, and success of open source. We’re a solutions provider, active user, and a longstanding member working side by side with communities all over the world. Today, 1,000’s of developers across our company are focused on Linux and open source projects while many more service professionals are involved in the implementation and support of Linux and open source projects for our customers.
Oracle
Oracle is committed to offering choice, flexibility, and lower cost of computing for end users. By investing significant resources in developing, testing, optimizing, and supporting open source technologies such as MySQL, OpenOffice.org, GlassFish, Linux, PHP, Apache, Eclipse, Berkeley DB, NetBeans, VirtualBox, Xen, and InnoDB, Oracle is clearly embracing and offering leading open source solutions as a viable choice for development and deployment.
Percona
Percona Inc. has made MySQL faster and more reliable for over 1,200 consulting and support customers worldwide. Percona provides enterprise-grade MySQL support, consulting, training, and development services. Our founders authored the book High Performance MySQL and the MySQL Performance Blog.
FireHost
FireHost is a secure cloud hosting company focused on protecting companies sensitivedata and brand reputations with an architecture built for security, scalability and performance. FireHost’s customers range from start-up to some of the world’s largest companies, many of whom require FireHost’s PCI, HIPAA or high traffic solutions.
Canonical
At Canonical, we’ve been committed to free and open-source software since our inception. Today, we sponsor dozens of projects, including Ubuntu, Unity, Launchpad, Bazaar and Juju - and we’re committed to their communities’ long-term success. As part of this ongoing effort, we’re immensely proud to sponsor this event.
Linode
Recently named by Inc. magazine as one of the top 500 fastest growing private companies in America, Linode delivers virtualized cloud services from six regions across the U.S., Europe, and Asia to some of the most innovative companies in the world, such as The Onion and Creative Commons. The company’s proven IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) offering enables customers to deploy and manage Linux virtual servers in the Linode Cloud with the ability to scale deployments to meet business demands - paying only for what they use with no long-term commitments.
GitHub
GitHub is version control for software development and so much more. Whether it's a weekend side project, your favorite open source library, a startup destined for glory, or your company's app, GitHub helps everyone work together with tools for easier collaboration and more visibility. Check it out — open source is free!
SkySQL
At SkySQL, we’ve brought together the cream of the former MySQL AB talent in one place to ensure you get world class support, consulting and training. If you need support for your MySQL® database, or training for your MySQL DBAs, or consulting for your MySQL deployment, SkySQL can assist.
SPARC
SPARC provides full software development life-cycle support and software product development services with customers in the commercial, federal, and defense contracting industries. SPARC offers a broad range of solutions in order to enhance customer-focused results in an industry driven by state-of-the-art technology.
OrangeFS
OrangeFS is an open source next-generation parallel virtual file system, based on PVFS for compute and storage clusters of the future. Its original charter - to complement high-performance computing for cutting edge research in academic and government initiatives - is fast expanding into a versatile array of real-world applications.
Health Sciences South Carolina
HSSC is the nation's only statewide biomedical research collaborative and is committed to transforming South Carolina's public health and economic well being through research.
City of Columbia
Columbia is the state capital and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The city is the center of a metropolitan area of over 750,000 people. Columbia ranked 34th in the Forbes 2009 "Best Places for Business and Careers" list. A 2010 study of the best places for small businesses by Portfolio.com/Bizjournals ranked Columbia 12th of the nation's 100 largest metro areas.
South Carolina Chamber of Commerce
The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce is the nation's first state chamber. Accredited with Distinction by the U.S. Chamber, it is the state's largest statewide broad-based business and industry trade association representing more than 18,000 businesses and more than one million employees.
Linux Journal
Linux Journal, currently celebrating its 17th year of publication, is the original magazine of the global Linux community, delivering readers the advice and inspiration they need to get the most out of their Linux systems. In-depth information provides a full 360-degree look at featured topics relating to Linux, giving a comprehensive source of everything readers need for creating and completing their own projects --not just tools they will use today, but relevant and encompassing information they will turn to in future months and years.
Free Software Magazine
Free Software Magazine is the only magazine worldwide that is dedicated to the promotion of free software as a whole. Our website is based on the fantastic free software Drupal CMS. If you are new to the concept of "free software", you might like to read our jargon-free beginner's guide to free software.
Open Source Software Institute
The Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) is a non-profit (501 c 6) organization comprised of corporate, government, academic and Open Source Community representatives whose mission is to promote the development and implementation of open-source software solutions within U.S. federal, state and municipal government agencies and academic entities.
Linux International
Linux International, also known as LI, is a world-wide non-profit association of end users who are dedicated to furthering the acceptance and use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). An end-user is defined as a person that uses FOSS in their daily life. Linux International is not a vendor organization, so while it may have sponsoring bodies who are corporations or companies, voting membership is limited to individuals, and individual representatives of international chapters and international affiliates.
Linux Pro Magazine
Available in both print and digital editions, Linux Pro Magazine (Linux Magazine outside North America) brings practical, hands-on solutions for real users who depend on Linux in their daily lives.
Ping! Zine
The Industry’s Most Respected and Widely Read Magazine! Celebrating its Tenth Year, Ping! Zine is the Industry’s Premier Voice for both Service Providers and End Users.
TheWHIR
Since 2000, The Web Host Industry Review has made a name for itself as the foremost authority of the Web hosting industry providing reliable, insightful and comprehensive news, reviews and resources to the hosting community.
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