2006 Corporate Supporters

Since 1982, Sun has brought together the world's brightest technical minds to solve the world's biggest technical problems. Our vision of "Everyone and everything participating on the network" means that when people are networked, they share, they interact, and solve problems.

At IBM, we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics. We translate these advanced technologies into value for our customers through our professional solutions, services and consulting businesses worldwide.

Next-generation wireless communications is emerging as the most important technology of this millennium.

To ensure that the entire wireless industry is inspired and continues to evolve, innovate and experience success, QUALCOMM develops its technologies and solutions for the purpose of enabling key participants in the wireless value chain.

By partnering with and acting as an enabler to the business activities of these participants, QUALCOMM ultimately enables consumers, professionals and government entities — the end users who benefit from the success of the wireless industry today and into tomorrow.

Qualcomm is sponsor of the OOPSLA wireless network at OOPSLA 2006.

Google is a public and profitable company focused on search services. Named for the mathematical term "googol," Google operates web sites at many international domains, with the most trafficked being www.google.com. Google is widely recognized as the "world's best search engine" because it is fast, accurate and easy to use. The company also serves corporate clients, including advertisers, content publishers and site managers with cost-effective advertising and a wide range of revenue generating search services. Google's breakthrough technology and continued innovation serve the company's mission of "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful."

At Microsoft, our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.

VMWare is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry standard systems.

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software solutions. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver(r) platform to drive innovation and enable business change, SAP business solutions help enterprises of all sizes around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. The best-run businesses run SAP.

DiSTI is a global leader in Human Machine Interface development. Our flagship product, GL Studio creates object oriented 2D and 3D Human Machine Interfaces components for C++ and Java.

Krugle is a search engine that brings the world of code to a developer's desktop. Krugle extends search beyond technical documentation and html pages by parsing code and code samples. Krugle crawls hundreds of public repositories and indexes millions of code files. Scoring is based on the relevance and the context in which a particular term is found including function names and definitions, class names, or comments. Collaboration is a key component to Krugle's offering. Developers have the opportunity to annotate, save, and share search results, enriching the value of company based and open source based projects.

Franklin, Beedle & Associates is a publisher of high-quality materials that advance the knowledge and skills of the computer science and information technology communities.

We are the premier publisher in computing, economics, finance, mathematics, science, and statistics. Our goal is to partner with instructors, authors, and students to create content and tools that take the educational experience forward. We are committed to publishing the best collection of print and electronic content designed to help teachers teach and students learn.

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazine, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

Knowledge, information and quality – these are the three things that shape Springer Science+Business Media’s business activities. We develop, manage and disseminate knowledge – through books, journals and the Internet. We work with the world’s best academics and authors in long-standing loyal partnerships based on mutual trust and always open to new input.

From humble storefront beginnings in 1971 on a derelict corner of northwest Portland, Powell's Books has grown into one of the world's great bookstores, with seven locations in the Portland metropolitan area, and one of the book world's most successful dot-coms (www.powells.com), serving customers worldwide.