2006 Sponsors and Affiliates
Gold Sponsor
Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN) is the market leader in electronic licensing,
installation, and digital rights management (DRM) technologies.
Macrovision's Software Technologies Group markets the FLEXnet(TM) universal licensing platform and
the InstallShield® suite of software installation, repackaging and update solutions, which are deployed on more than 500 million
desktops worldwide. Over 50,000 software publishers and hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies use Macrovision technologies for Software
Value Management(TM) (SVM). SVM solutions bridge the gap between pricing and packaging software on the developer side, and purchasing
and managing that software on the enterprise side. Macrovision holds more than 700 software licensing, DRM and content protection
patents worldwide. Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and has offices worldwide. More information about
Macrovision and Software Value Management solutions can be found at www.macrovision.com.
Gold Sponsor
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. www.microsoft.com
Gold Sponsor
Open iT is a leading provider of advanced Hardware & Software Usage Reporting and Optimization Solutions. The World's most successful organizations use Open iT's tools and services to reduce cost, increase performance and support business process improvements. Open iT Software enables fully customizable usage reporting, granular charge-back for hardware and software usage, and automated, industry leading license harvesting capabilities across Windows/Unix/Linux platforms.
Open iT's metering and optimization tools equips Software and IT Asset Managers with advanced usage metering across license managers such as FlexLM, IBM LUM and Sentinel/Abaqus, in addition to non-license-managed applications and web applications.
Established in 1992, Open iT is present in the Americas, Europe and Asia, selling products and services directly or through technology and strategic partners worldwide. www.openit.com
Gold Sponsor
PreEmptive Solutions is a leading application security and performance provider. The recognized leader in obfuscation solutions, PreEmptive has over 3,000 clients worldwide that trust PreEmptive to prevent application vulnerability probing and intellectual property theft. Now, PreEmptive is launching SO-s™, a solution that enables a new category of IT controls improving application security and business performance. SO-s integrates application data with business information offering detective IT controls unavailable through traditional monitoring, logging or audit applications.
SO-s integrates application development with operations management and SOA technology with reliable and cost-effective SaaS solutions to improve application value for every stakeholder. www.preemptive.com
Silver Sponsor
Platform Computing is the leading systems infrastructure software company that accelerates applications and delivers IT agility for increased business performance and reduced cost. Founded in 1992 Platform is a pioneer in HPC, Cluster and Grid Computing technologies. Platform has over 2000 global customers and strategic relationships with Dell™, HP, IBM®, Intel®, Microsoft®, Novell®, Red Hat® and SAS®, along with the industry's broadest support for third-party applications. For more information please visit www.platform.com.
Bronze Sponsor
Black Duck Software® is a global provider of software compliance management solutions helping companies govern how software assets are created, managed, and licensed. www.blackducksoftware.com
Bronze Sponsor
DataDirect Technologies is the software industry's only comprehensive provider of software for connecting critical business applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven and emerging standards - ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. www.datadirect.com
Bronze Sponsor
Realize your Global Possibilities with a full-service provider of end-to-end supply chain management solutions - from physical and digital sourcing, assembly to delivery of products. www.globalwaresolutions.com
Bronze Sponsor
LANDesk delivers cost-effective and intelligent systems, security and process management solutions. LANDesk solutions simplify IT management of desktops, servers, mobile devices and processes. www.landesk.com
Bronze Sponsor
Since 1996, License Technologies Group has been the established leader in providing license management, eBusiness and entitlement solutions specifically designed for software publishers and their partners. www.licensetech.com
Bronze Sponsor
The premier software usage analysis and reporting toolset. License Tracker enables informed software asset management decisions, fair business unit cost splitting, and facilitates vendors and end-users to enter into usage-based licensing agreements. www.licensetracker.ca
Bronze Sponsor
OpSource™, the SaaS experts, is focused on providing the operational infrastructure and ongoing services that enable software companies, On-Demand businesses, and web applications providers to deliver and maintain the highest quality web-based solutions. www.opsource.net
Bronze Sponsor
The standard for technology product management and marketing education with 35,000 alumni since 1993, we teach a practical, market-driven approach to creating technology products. www.PragmaticMarketing.com
Bronze Sponsor
United Devices, the expert in grid and infrastructure management solutions, addresses a range of business needs, from application license optimization to enterprise-scale infrastructure virtualization. www.ud.com
Bronze Sponsor
WIBU-SYSTEMS, founded in 1989, designs state-of-the-art anti-piracy software protection, DRM, document and media protection; for PC, Mac and Linux with their WibuKey and CodeMeter platforms. www.wibu.com
Participating Company
Symantec is the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals and enterprises assure the security, availability and integrity of their information. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in 40 countries. www.symantec.com