Sun Microsystems has held open systems to be the cornerstone of its philosophy since its beginning, and has always been dedicated to delivering hardware and software based on open industry standards. Today, Sun’s commitment to Free Software is reflected in it being the single largest contributing organization, public or private, of software to FLOSS projects in the world.

Sun is a key contributor to many projects including OpenSolaris, OpenSPARC, OpenOffice.org, GlassFish, NetBeans, GNOME, Mozilla, X.org, Mobile & Embedded more information about Sun’s efforts in FLOSS, please visit http://sun.com/opensource

NFOPOLE Cluster TIC is the Walloon network which brings together professionals in Information and Communication Technology in order to set up a centre of excellence and to promote business and innovation through partnership.

INFOPOLE Cluster TIC puts varying skills in contact with each other: small and large companies, universities, research centres… and other actors of the ICT sector.

Interested? Visit our website www.infopole.be

DMoon is an Open Source integrator that implements eBusiness solutions for the private sector and eGovernment solutions for the public sector in Belgium, Luxembourg and the north of France.

In Linux Magazine, http://www.linux-magazine.com, you’ll find the tools, tutorials, reviews, and concrete technical discussions you’ll need to unlock the secrets of Linux – and not just from the server side. Linux Magazine delivers solutions for real users with Linux on real desktops.

IT Professional is thé Belgian news magazine for everyone professionally in charge of IT. IT Professional aims at the man or woman responsible for the infrastructure and the purchasing policy of the Belgian company and who thus needs to be informed about the state-of-the-art technological developments and has to know the ins and outs of the IT sector. The biweekly magazine fulfils this need by focusing strongly on local and international news and trends, case studies, concise yet thorough product tests and events in the IT world. IT Professional is published by Minoc Business Press .

IBBT, the Interdisciplinary institute for BroadBand Technology, is a research institute founded by the Flemish government, aimed at Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in general, and the development of broadband applications in particular. IBBT’s primary mission is to develop highly competent human capital and to carry out multidisciplinary research on behalf of the Flemish business community as well as the Flemish government. IBBT receives a yearly budget of 23,2 million euro. Since its foundation in 2004, IBBT has started over 30 projects with more than 120 organisations. These projects strive for the joint development of innovative applications in several domains, as there are health care, mobility, new media and e-government.

AMD (NYSE: AMD) is the customer-centric innovation company, a processing powerhouse that offers smarter choices for its customers and makes technology more accessible to the world. AMD is focused on best meeting the needs of leading computing, wireless and consumer electronics companies to help them deliver high-performance, energy-efficient and visually realistic solutions.

Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD designs and produces innovative microprocessor and graphics and media solutions for the computer, communications, and consumer electronics industries.

A-Server is a technology company offering datacenter virtualization solutions.

Our customers benefit from the next generation technology to allow them to build high availability large storage solutions and to construct large scale datacenters. Our products are delivered with extended features, easier manageability and all this at a better TCO compared with other existing solutions.

A-Server is funded by the management team. Our knowledge is based on a proven track record in hosting, integration, software and service companies.

Belgian Network Solutions is the leading housing, colocation and IP transit provider in Belgium. Delivering services in the InterXion, LCL and MCI/Verizon facilities offering over 200 racks of space, fully meshed 10GigE DWDM rings and a fully redundant IP/MPLS infrastructure. Belgian Network Solutions is the partner for all your datacenter solutions.

Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. We provide consulting, systems integration, outsourcing and infrastructure services, combined with powerful enterprise server technology. We specialize in helping clients use information to create efficient, secure business operations that allow them to achieve their business goals. Our consultants and industry experts work with clients to understand their business challenges and create greater visibility into critical linkages throughout their operations. For more information, visit www.unisys.com.

GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (http://www.groundworkopensource.com) is the fastest growing provider of open source network and systems management software, delivering enterprise-class IT management solutions that offer unprecedented network, system and application availability at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. An integral part of GroundWork’s “Just Right IT management” philosophy is to ensure that its software and services seamlessly integrate with a customer’s management solutions – thus preserving their existing investment while simultaneously providing value. GroundWork’s solutions are in use at organizations like AOL, SAIC, Seton Hall University, Siemens, and World Bank. GroundWork’s solutions are available from GroundWork, its partners including Red Hat, Unisys, Fujitsu, and a worldwide network of channel partners.

Internet Society Belgium (ISOC Belgium) is a nonprofit organisation founded in 1998, Belgian chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC), with a global and local mission : promote a stable, accessible and safe Internet for everyone.

The Internet Society has more than 80 organisational and more than 24,000 individual members in over 80 chapters around the world. It is dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world. From commerce to education to social issues, our goal is to enhance the availability and utility of the Internet on the widest possible scale.

The Society’s individual and organisation members are bound by a common stake in maintaining the viability and global scaling of the Internet. They comprise the companies, government agencies, and foundations that have created the Internet and its technologies as well as innovative new entrepreneurial organisations contributing to maintain that dynamic.

The Internet Society provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet, and is the organisation home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

May INUITS employees be your guide for a safe and controlled journey throughout the open source world ? The hands and efforts of an entire group of employees were required to build our brand new company “INUITS”. They are the results of a consensus of purpose, of focused action by a group united in its Goal and Business & ICT knowledge. The INUITS reminds us that as good as our individual efforts may be, together we can do even greater things. For more info visit our website www.inuits.be

L’Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications (AWT) est un organisme d’intérêt public du gouvernement Wallon. Elle a pour mission générale la promotion des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC) et de leur usage en Région wallonne. Cette mission se décline en trois axes fondamentaux, dans l’ordre : 1. la veille, 2. le conseil et la référence, 3. la promotion.

HP has a longstanding commitment to developing robust solutions based on the Linux platform. As the industry’s Linux market-share leader1, HP is renowned for its broad portfolio and support of open source and Linux solutions for industry-standard platforms. With in excess of 5,000 highly-trained Linux services and support personnel, spanning 178 countries, HP’s commitment to ensuring the continued success of the worldwideLinux program is clearly evident.Today, more than 2,500 developers across the company are focused on Linux and open source projects. In addition HP has over 200 products with embedded open source software shipping worldwide. HP is now spearheading a new OSS community around FOSS governance, sharing the intellectual property acquired though its own experience of using and integrating open source software into commercial products. HP’s widespread contributions to open source and Linux include organizational leadership, intellectual property contributions for technology advances, project development, and individual community activism. HP strong open source community interaction provides a unique edge to understand and address the issues of infrastructure solutions based on OSS.