OSS Watch provides unbiased advice and guidance on the use, development, and licensing of free and open source software. OSS Watch is funded by the JISC and its services are available free-of-charge to UK higher and further education. If you want to find out more about open source software, we're the people to ask.

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As the world's largest IT company, HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all its customers - from individual consumers to large enterprises. HP helps businesses focus on innovation instead of IT operations by offering robust solutions based on HP inventions, open source software, and industry-standard hardware in a converged infrastructure. In fact, as the leading provider of scalable Linux platforms, HP ships one Linux server every minute. HP not only uses open source within the company extensively but also contributes our expertise to hundreds of open source projects worldwide. In fact, we built tools for open source governance in enterprises, then released them as an open source project called FOSSology. Also, HP helps lead the thriving FOSSBazaar community focused on free and open source governance best practices, education, and tools. To learn more about open source and Linux from HP, see http://www.hp.com/go/opensource/.

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WSO2 delivers the only complete open source middleware platform. With its revolutionary componentized design, WSO2 middleware adapts to the project for a lean, targeted solution to enterprise applications. Fully cloud-native, the WSO2 middleware platform is also the only open source platform-as-a-service for private and public clouds available today. With WSO2, seamless migration and integration between servers, private clouds, and public clouds is now a reality.

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A leading provider of global content management and infrastructure software, Day Software is the initiator of the industry standards JSR 170 and JSR283, and is leading an industry expert group with members such as IBM, Oracle, Sun and HP. JSR 170 is the first industry standard for content repositories, enabling access of information regardless of the repository location. In 2005, Day donated its Java Content Repository (JCR) to the Apache Software Foundation, forming the Apache Jackrabbit project. Apache Jackrabbit is an attractive option for companies who want to move away from expensive, proprietary legacy repositories, looking for a cost efficient, standards-based alternative.

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Strategic communications, brand management, and media advisory services for a diverse clientele that ranges from innovation think tanks to Open Source community leaders. http://haloworldwide.com/

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Indiginox provides independent consulting and project management services for Open Source and mobile technologies to large European organizations. Founded in 2006, by 2 IT industry veterans with extensive backgrounds in both Open Source and commercial software, Indiginox today has both commercial as well as academic clients across Europe. Services provided include program and project management of technical projects, technology evaluation, identification of application areas for Open Source within the enterprise, and the setup and management of internal communities. Indiginox also provides be-spoke Open Source and mobile software development. Indiginox has a network of partners to provide specific subject matter experts and additional services as required.

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At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them. We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Microsoft's open source strategy is grounded in recognition of the value of openness to working with others -- including commercial open source vendors, developers and open source communities -- to help customers and partners succeed in today's heterogeneous "world of choice."

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Sirius Corporation plc is an I.T. services company focused on reducing costs, increasing capabilities, performance and productivity for our customers through Open Source Software. We pride ourselves on providing excellent customer service. Our promise is that we will improve your I.T. facilities whilst permanently lowering your long-term costs.

Sirius has a proven track record with a variety of Public and Private sector companies including Bishop’s Fox, Specsavers, LiMo and Yell Adworks, to name a few, with the assurance of UK government accreditation.

We work closely with schools, colleges, public bodies and enterprises to understand how they can use Free and Open Source technologies to become more efficient and successful and have helped our customers cut costs and increase their productivity in all cases.

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The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field.

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Sourcesense is a European Open Source Systems Integrator with offices in London, Amsterdam, Milan and Rome. Our international team contributes to major Open Source projects, and our customers leverage our ability to provide dependable solutions based on Open Source software.

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The London Java Community (LJC) is a group of Java Enthusiasts who are interested in benefiting from shared knowledge in the industry. Through our forum and regular meetings you can keep in touch with the latest industry developments, learn new Java (& other JVM) technologies, meet other developers, discuss technical/non technical issues and network further throughout the Java Community.

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The world's most successful media brand aimed at IT managers, Computerworld was first launched in 1969 in the USA and has since earned itself a reputation for being sharply focused on reporting all the issues effecting IT managers.  Today, there are 57 editions of Computerworld globally serving a combined audience of 14 million IT professionals. Computerworld UK is published by IDG and edited by Mike Simons. http://www.computerworlduk.com/
 

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