Basho Technologies, Inc.,founded in January 2008 by a core group of Software Architects, Engineers and Executive Leadership from Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM) is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Basho produces Riak, a distributed datastore that combines high availability, easily-scalable capacity and throughput, and ease of use. Riak's complete availability means that applications built using Riak remain both read- and write-available under almost any operational conditions and without requiring intervention.  Available in both an open source and a paid commercial version, Riak provides unprecedented read- and write-availability to web, mobile, and enterprise applications.

Ericsson is a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and related services to mobile and fixed network operators globally. Over 1,000 networks in more than 175 countries utilize our network equipment and 40 percent of all mobile calls are made through our systems. We are one of the few companies worldwide that can offer end-to-end solutions for all major mobile communication standards.

Through our Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications joint venture we offer a range of mobile devices, including those supporting multimedia applications and other services allowing richer communication.

We invest heavily in R&D and actively promote open standards and systems. Also reflecting our ongoing commitment to technological leadership, we have one of the industry's most comprehensive intellectual property portfolio containing over 23,000 patents.

Erlang Solutions was founded in 1999 in London to provide Training, Consulting, Contracting and System Development services in Erlang and OTP. Today, With offices in London, Uppsala and Krakow we serve clients on five continents. We employ a network of certified Erlang/OTP consultants, provide services to private individuals and blue chip companies alike and cooperate with universities in different research projects. We contribute a range of Erlang products to the open-source community, including the Erlang Web, we organise the Erlang Factory conferences in London and The San Francisco Bay Area, we provide additional community services through the TrapExit community website and we organise the London Erlang User Group Meetings and Erlounges.  We also annually sponsor Bachelor, Master's and PhD theses, presenting the results at international conferences worldwide and every summer invite students to undergo internships in the company to get familiar with the Erlang language and gain experience. 

Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with experiences in music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games and business mobility through these devices. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks.

af83 is the Internet company. As a Social Media Agency, a Service Company and a Software Editor, it creates Internet applications and experiences that are multi-platform, high performance, real time, transactional and social. These new applications are connected, accessible via computer, smartphone, tablet or TV. Their underlying system uses Open Source bricks developed or improved by af83.

ProcessOne delivers solutions that can be relied upon. We specialise in developing instant messaging servers that ensure consistently high performance regardless of the number of concurrent users. And that's what makes our solutions ideal for critical business applications. All our instant messaging products are based on the ejabberd platform, an open-source technology that is renowned in the industry for its stability, reliability and scalability. ProcessOne has been working with ejabberd since the technology's inception and has unrivalled expertise in building customised solutions based on the ejabberd platform.

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Travelping is a Germany-based software vendor offering solutions for network operators to build, manage and charge their broadband services securely and efficiently.

Travelping's Products, Tools and Services cover the development, deployment and management of distributed CPE device and the control, management and charging of subscriber sessions.

Incorporated in 2004, the company has extensive data, network and telecom experience with the founders and staff having worked with and for such companies as: Cable & Wireless, Park Technologies (Cisco), Telefonica and Deutsche Telekom.

WhatsApp Messenger is an Erlang powered new mobile cross platform messaging platform with clients available for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Nokia smartphones. WhatsApp service is built on top of FreeBSD and Erlang with aim to provide highest industry uptime and scalability possible.

The Bitsource is an online publication and research lab with a primary focus on IT operations and Web development. The Bitsource brings together best-in-class research, reviews, and most importantly; the people who make it happen.

Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community.
 
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O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, 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 galvanizing 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.