2008 East Sponsors & Exhibitors Appcelerator Appcelerator, Inc. is an open source software company specializing in products and services for rapid rich Internet application (RIA) and SOA-based services development. The Appcelerator Platform SDKs enable developers to develop rich Ajax and DHTML applications using cross-browser widgets, a unique Web Expression Language and other open standards-based languages like HTML and CSS - without the use of Javascript. Appcelerator supports most languages, including Java, Ruby, PHP, .NET, Python and Perl. For more information on Appcelerator's open-source Ajax development products and solutions, please visit http://www.appcelerator.org/. DreamFace Interactive DreamFace Interactive provides a revolutionary new way for web-savvy business people to create, control, and share their own web applications, through a unique and innovative concept called WebChannels that make possible the creation of applications designed for change. Our goal is to promote the DIY (Do IT Yourself) notion coupled to the Web 2.0 fast-growing phenomenon and encourage users to be a real actor in the definition, creation and publication of interactive and intuitive new generation of applications, where the Internet, the Intranet or both are the core platform. For more information about DreamFace Interactive, visit http://dreamface-interactive.com/ Farata Systems Farata Systems is a leading IT consulting and product development company providing enterprise-wide IT solutions specializing in the area of rich Internet applications. The company has been created by the merger of two consulting companies: Computer Technology,Inc., and Smart Data Processing, Inc. Farata Systems focuses on delivering custom solutions using sustainable technologies for financial and retail applications. Our team of highly-regarded industry experts will assess requirements of your business, will suggest the most effective solutions in your current technological space, with the emphasis on blending new technologies into existing IT fabric of your business. We hire experts who have established long term successful track records of developing enterprise applications, not just talking about them. For more information about Farata Systems, visit http://www.faratasystems.com/ ICEsoft ICEsoft Technologies is a leading provider of standards-compliant, AJAX-based solutions for developing and deploying Java EE, rich Internet applications. The company's portfolio of enterprise level Java products includes ICEfaces, an AJAX application framework that enables Java EE application developers to easily create and deploy thin-client rich Web applications in pure Java. ICEfaces is professional open source software specifically engineered to meet the unique challenges of enterprise application development and deployment. The solution extends JavaServer? Faces, enabling Java software developers to more easily create and deploy thin-client rich Web applications in Java technology. It leverages the entire standards-based Java EE ecosystem of tools and execution environments and resolves mission critical deployment issues such as scalability, availability, and redundancy. At the same time, ICEfaces delivers the most secured AJAX application model in the industry. Its applications are Java technology based applications, not JavaScript applications. For more information about ICEsoft, visit http://www.icesoft.com/ Kaazing Kaazing, headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, is founded for the purpose of delivering the best possible real-time experience for the Internet. We provide real-time software solutions to customers who really care about their end-user experience when it comes to usability, scalability, and performance. In addition to providing commercial enterprise software delivering the best Internet real-time experience possible, Kaazing also provides support, training, and consulting services. For more information about Kaazing, visit http://www.kaazing.com/ Lightstreamer Lightstreamer is the leading provider of push technology for live data distribution. Based on the AJAX-Comet paradigm (a.k.a Streaming AJAX or AJAX Push) it streams real-time data to any AJAX application without the need to download or install anything on the client. Lightstreamer Server features an impressive scalability, sustaining many thousands of concurrent connections for each CPU. Furthermore it implements unique capabilities, such as bandwidth control and adaptive streaming, that results in a robust and efficient live data delivery in any network conditions. For more information about Lightstreamer, visit http://www.lightstreamer.com/. M/Gateway M/Gateway Developments Ltd, is a UK based company that specializes in advanced web application technologies, integration and middleware technologies. Our flagship product, eXtc Web Developer (EWD), is a rapid web application development technology, incorporating a powerful yet simple-use AJAX framework. EWD is unique in that it is completely technology agnostic. An application defined with EWD can be compiled to generate identical versions that will run on any of the mainstream web run-time environments, eg PHP, Java Server Pages, etc. EWD's primary focus is to massively simplify the development of, and radically reduce the maintenance overheads of complex, enterprise-scale web/AJAX applications. EWD's almost unlimited XML-based user-extensibility features have been recently harnessed to add support for the dijit widget set from the Dojo Foundation. The ease with which Dojo's widgets can be used within EWD to create powerful AJAX applications has to be seen to be believed, so a visit to our stand is a must! For more information about M/Gateway, visit http://www.mgateway.com Nexaweb Nexaweb's Enterprise Web 2.0 solution is an application development and deployment platform that increases productivity by minimizing painful coding; improves efficiency through the re?use of legacy and SOA assets; and creates a more agile business by delivering secure, mission-critical applications over the Web. With Nexaweb, building enterprise-strength composite and mashup solutions using Ajax and Java UI applications that access legacy and service-oriented data systems is simple. And because it's done in a unified declarative XML development environment, it doesn't require re-writing code. Only Nexaweb's comprehensive Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions are backed by an established methodology and reference architecture proven by more than 5,000 successful global deployments. Nexaweb's brand-name customer roster includes Aflac Japan, Ameripath, ARTstor, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, Best Western Hotels, EMC, Jefferies & Co., Inc., and Nokia Siemens Networks. Visit Nexaweb's DevCenter at http://dev.nexaweb.com for more information. Oasis OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. The consortium produces more Web services standards than any other organization along with standards for security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. OpSource™ OpSource™, delivers Web applications and software as a service for on-demand companies, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and billions of transactions supported daily. OpSource On-Demand, the leading platform for Web application delivery, is defining how Web-based software is delivered. By choosing OpSource, companies are freed from investing in and managing the complex and costly infrastructure necessary to deliver applications over the Web. They can instead focus their resources on developing, marketing and selling. For more information about OpSource™, visit http://www.opsource.net/ qooxdoo qooxdoo, is a comprehensive and innovative framework for Rich Internet Applications, http://qooxdoo.org. Leveraging object-oriented JavaScript allows developers to build impressive Ajax applications for all common browsers. No HTML, CSS nor DOM knowledge is needed. The framework's platform-independent development tool chain helps in creating and maintaining even large-scale enterprise applications. qooxdoo's state-of-the-art GUI toolkit includes a complete set of widgets and advanced theming capabilities, which allow for virtually any look & feel. Its mature client-server communication layer supports standard AJAX calls as well as high-level remote procedure calls. qooxdoo is an Open Source project under an LGPL/EPL dual license, ready for non-commercial and commercial use. The framework was initiated in early 2005 by 1&1 Internet AG, http://1and1.com,the world's biggest web hosting company. 1&1 employs most of the core developers that concentrate full-time on improving qooxdoo. The company also provides the infrastructure for many co-developers, contributors and the thriving qooxdoo community. For more information about qooxdoo, visit http://qooxdoo.org Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, a creator and industry leading advocate of emerging technologies, is revolutionizing and redefining system-wide management of rich, standards-compliant, Internet applications for the next generation Web. A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of state-of-the-art, power-efficient servers and storage systems to award-winning, open-source based software offerings. When it comes to Web 2.0 technologies, Sun provides best-of-breed solutions to enterprises and startups worldwide for developing, deploying, and managing the next wave of computing. For more information about Sun Microsystems, visit http://developers.sun.com/web/ SYS-CON TV SYS-CON TV is your complete resource for LIVE i-Technology News and Views about the latest trends. Visual WebGui Gizmox, the company behind Visual WebGui is the leading developer of AJAX / Silverlight enterprise application development and deployment platforms. The company?s solutions solve the challenges associated with AJAX development because they are as easy to program as VB6 or WinForms and eliminate client-side dependency and security concerns. Visual WebGui?s solutions reduce enterprise application development times at companies like SAP, Network D, Pyramid Group and others by more than 80%. The company?s standard browser-based platform is available as a free, open-source solution and as an enterprise-grade commercial solution (available April 2008). Visual WebGui, which is seamlessly integrated into Microsoft?s Visual Studio and .NET framework, also provides a Silverlight solution supported by Microsoft. For more information about Visual WebGui, visit http://www.visualwebgui.com/ 2007 West Sponsors & Exhibitors 3Tera 3Tera, Inc. is an innovator of grid and utility computing, simplifying the deployment and scaling of Web applications. Named a 2007 Category Breaker by NetworkWorld magazine, 3Tera's AppLogic grid operating system enables the first true utility computing services that completely remove the cost and complexity associated with infrastructure. The operating system converts commodity servers into scalable grids on which users can visually operate deploy and scale transactional Web applications without any modification of code. Software-as-a-Service providers, Web 2.0 companies, enterprises and open source developers can now get new online services quickly to market by utilizing resources from commodity hosting providers on a pay-as-you-go basis, while maintaining complete control of applications including visual operation, scaling and on-demand resource provisioning. 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