[March 30, 2006]

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2006 Exhibitor Profiles

Company: Appro - HPC CLuster Solutions
Booth/Stand: 1044
Media Contact: Maria McLaughlin
Phone: 408.941.8100
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.appro.com
  Appro is a leading developer of high-performance, density-managed
servers, storage subsystems, and high-end workstations for the HPC and
enterprise computing markets. Appro's headquarters is in Milpitas, CA,
with an R&D/manufacturing center in Asia and a sales office in
Houston.
Appro will showcase the new XtremeServers running Fluent CFD Parallel
Processing of Flow Model for Oil and Gas. Appro's unique solutions
support the latest Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors with superior
performance and memory flexibility that can scale up to 128GB. In
addition, Appro's innovative servers are designed to minimize overall
power consumption and cooling requirements, and deliver solid
performance-per-watt capabilities.
Company: Astaro Corporation
Booth/Stand: 1416
Media Contact: Amy Stucchi, Think Brain Campaigns, Inc.
Investor Relations Contact: Palen Schwab
Phone: 781-345-5017
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.astaro.com
  Astaro Security Gateways control access to networks, guarantee
availability and ensure compliance for businesses and enterprises
worldwide, while reducing network administration costs. With Astaro
Security Gateway, network administrators and designers achieve Network
Assurance: functional, high-performance and safe business networks.
Astaro Security Gateways have won numerous industry awards, and are
protecting over 25,000 networks in 60 countries, including such
companies as Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Los Alamos National Labs,
Stanford University and Watsco, Inc. Astaro Security Gateways are ICSA
Labs certified and currently being evaluated by the German Federal
Office for Information Security BSI (Bundesamt fur Sicherheit in der
Informationstechnik) to receive Common Criteria certification.
Company: BitDefender
Booth/Stand: 1234
Media Contact: Terry Frechette
Phone: 781-388-7900, ext 216
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.bitdefender.com
  BitDefender is an award winning producer of anti-virus and data
security software delivering effective threat management to over 41
million home and corporate users in more than 100 countries. The
company offers the industry's fastest and most effective line of
anti-virus and email security defense. BitDefender's suite of security
products secures all major points of entry from spam, malware and
viruses with unique multilayered heuristics (HiVE) technology.
At LinuxWorld, BitDefender will be unveiling a new line of Linux-based
mail protection solutions for the enterprise, SMBs and for Samba file
servers. Please visit us at the show or online at www.bitdefender.com.
Company: Centeris Corporation
Booth/Stand: 944
Media Contact: Chuck Mount
Phone: 425-378-7887 x200
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.centeris.com
  Centeris Corporation provides solutions that reduce the cost and
complexity of running Linux and open source software in mixed
networks. The company's flagship product, Centeris Likewise, makes it
easy for customers running Microsoft(R) Windows(R) networks to
configure and manage Linux servers. By providing simple and familiar
administrator tools and improved Linux/Windows compatibility, Likewise
removes many of the barriers to Linux adoption for both midmarket and
enterprise companies. Centeris Corporation is a Bellevue, WA-based
software company funded by leading venture capital firms Ignition
Partners, Intel Capital, and Trinity Ventures.
Company: Centric CRM
Booth/Stand: 1202
Media Contact: Michael Harvey, VP Corporate Development
Investor Relations Contact: David Richards, CEO
Phone: 757-470-5502
E-mail: [email protected]
Company URL: www.centriccrm.com
Press Kit URL: www.centriccrm.com/Portal.do?key=news
  CentricCRM's advanced Java, web-based, and object-oriented
architecture runs on all standards-based platforms. It's used today by
Fortune 500 companies in large configurations and by thousands of
others. CentricCRM includes all common CRM modules and adds
significant capabilities such as Project and Document Management. And
it's Open Source.
Centric CRM is the developer of the world's most advanced open source
Customer Relationship Management system, Centric CRM. The company was
founded 7 years ago. Its flagship product, Centric CRM, comprises over
2-million lines of code representing 50 man-years of development.
Centric CRM is headquartered in Norfolk, VA.
Company: Configuresoft
Booth/Stand: 1130
Media Contact: Davida Dinerman, 781.684.0770 
Phone: 719-447-4600
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.configuresoft.com
  Configuresoft is an innovator in systems management technology,
serving eight of the world's 25 largest companies. Based in Colorado
Springs, Colorado, the company offers enterprise configuration, policy
compliance and remediation products that span both operations and IT
security for Windows, UNIX and Linux. At a time in which organizations
must maintain a continuous state of compliance and audit throughout
their infrastructure, Configuresoft ensures these environments conform
to any desired or mandated state.
Company: Coraid, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 107
Media Contact: Rebecca Jepsen
Investor Relations Contact: Jim Kemp
Phone: 877-548-7200
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.coraid.com
  At the 2006 LinuxWorld Expo in Boston, Coraid will introduce a
unique Network Attached Storage (NAS) Solution. It combines the
benefits of EtherDrive Storage with Coraid's Linux NAS Gateway, to
create a file sharing system with unlimited storage capacity. The
CLN20 NAS Gateway and EtherDrive SR1520 Storage Bundle, offers an
affordable storage platform that can scale from 7.5 TeraBytes to
multi-PetaBytes exported via NFS or CIFS. The CLN20 is available in a
fault tolerant configuration, for high availability applications. The
CLN20/SR1520 Bundle lists for $6,195; a 30 TeraByte NAS solution can
be assembled for less than $1,250/TeraByte. "A truly affordable and
scalable NAS device is something the market has been seeking for
years," said Mike Karp, senior analyst for Enterprise Management
Associates. AoE delivers simple, scalable, affordable storage, a great
iSCSI alternative.
Company: IBRIX, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 1322
Media Contact: Christine Newman
Phone: 978-670-7400
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.ibrix.com
  IBRIX(R) delivers increased application performance to enterprise
computing environments utilizing a unique, software-based parallel
file serving solution. The IBRIX Fusion(TM) software suite, comprised
of a single namespace parallel file system, a scalable volume manager,
high availability features, and a comprehensive management interface,
is the most scalable, economical, multi-purpose file serving solution
available for cluster computing, grid computing, and enterprise
computing environments. Based on IBRIX's patented Segmented File
System(TM), IBRIX Fusion increases application performance, simplifies
administration, and reduces total cost of ownership. The IBRIX Fusion
software suite is available through leading OEMs.
Company: LeWiz Communications, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 115
Media Contact: Mary Le
Investor Relations Contact: Chinh Le
Phone: 408-452-9800 x109
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.lewiz.com
  LeWiz is the world's leading supplier of hardware-based,
multi-port TCP/IP accelerated chip and NIC solutions that enable the
highest performance, and lowest power consumption in networked
systems. The LeWiz solutions are designed to optimize board space,
system efficiency and data performance in servers, blade servers,
network-attached storage, iSCSI storage devices, and security systems.
LeWiz is a privately held company based in San Jose, California. For
more information about LeWiz and its products, please visit the
company's Web site at http://www.lewiz.com
Company: Myricom, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 1118
Media Contact: Liza Kurtz
Investor Relations Contact: Nan Boden ([email protected])
Phone: 928.282.6929
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.myri.com
  Myricom has been a global leader in High-performance Computing
(HPC) for more than a decade. With its latest generation of 10-Gigabit
NICs and switches, Myricom introduced a convergence of Myrinet, the
world's leading specialty HPC interconnect, and Ethernet, the dominant
networking technology worldwide. Myri-10G solutions satisfy demand for
broader interoperability in HPC environments as well as the need among
advanced data centers for HPC-caliber performance in storage, media,
and other intensive applications.
Company: Novell Inc.
Booth/Stand: 730
Ticker Symbol & Exchange: NOVL
Media Contact: Bruce Lowry
Investor Relations Contact: Keith Clarke
Phone: 800.453.1267
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.novell.com
  Novell is a global leader in enterprise class software and
services, with over $1B in sales and 100 offices around the world. We
got there by providing a flexible combination of open source and
commercial technologies, based on open standards. We help our
customers manage, simplify, secure, and integrate their IT systems.
This helps them lower cost and complexity while at the same time
increasing return on their investment.
Novell provides global services and support and has a strong history
of innovation and world-class engineering. We also build customer
solutions leveraging our network of over 800 technology partners, 900
training partners, and 3,200 solution providers. Software for the Open
Enterprise from Novell. There's more to Novell than you think.
Company: Pearson Technology Group
Booth/Stand: 1129
Media Contact: Heather Fox
Phone: 201-236-1739
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.informit.com
  With the most trusted and recognized brands in the computing
arena, Pearson Technology Group, a division of Pearson Education
(www.pearsoned.com), and part of Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO), is the
world's leading publisher of books and learning materials focused on
advancing the skills of technical, business, creative and professional
computing consumers. Pearson Technology Group is home to such renowned
publishing brands as Addison-Wesley, Adobe Press, Apple Certified,
Cisco Press, New Riders Publishing, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall, Que
Publishing, and Sams Publishing. Pearson Technology Group is a leader
in online publishing through http://www.informit.com.
Company: Pentaho Corporation
Booth/Stand: 530
Media Contact: Lance Walter, VP of Marketing
Phone: 407-446-8087
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.pentaho.org
  Pentaho provides a full spectrum of open source Business
Intelligence (BI) capabilities from reporting to OLAP to dashboards to
data mining. Pentaho's powerful products support a wide range of
business initiatives including sales analysis, customer analysis,
financial reporting, predictive analytics, and KPI dashboards, and are
highly customizable for customers' unique requirements.
Pentaho is the fastest-growing open source BI project, and is
consistently in the top 100 projects out of more than 100,000 on
www.sourceforge.net. Pentaho provides a complete BI suite via a free
open source license, as well as a Professional Edition that includes
additional enterprise deployment capabilities.
Company: ReadyTalk
Booth/Stand: 1231
Media Contact: Katie Heckman
Phone: 303-209-1698
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.readytalk.com/linuxworld
  ReadyTalk is a full-service audio and web conferencing provider.
Our superior cross platform solution will empower everyone in your
organization to hold powerful virtual meetings. No matter what
platform your customers, partners, or colleagues use (Linux, Mac OS X,
Solaris, or Windows), they will be able to easily host or join any web
conference.
With ReadyTalk, you can conduct online sales demonstrations, train new
employees, hold webinars to generate more leads, record events, review
new initiatives and much more. Our affordable and easy-to-use
conferencing will enhance all of your business communication.
Company: Revelation Software
Booth/Stand: 225
Media Contact: Cathleen Moran
Phone: (201) 594-1422
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.revelation.com
  Revelation Software delivers a suite of application development
tools and companion services that take full advantage of leading
network computing architectures, and client server platforms. The
company's flagship product OpenInsight is the only database
development and application environment that provides both Windows,
Linux and Java-based GUI tools to develop and deploy web-based and
client server applications that support native and relational XML,
SQL, and the leading legacy MultiValue data sources such as Arev, Pick
and IBM Universe.
OpenInsight for Linux (OIL) provides application developers with the
freedom to be platform independent. With the dataSet Object,
developers using OpenInsight for Linux (OIL) now have connectivity to
mySQL and any ODBC data source.
Company: rPath
Booth/Stand: 1101
Media Contact: Kristi Lee, [email protected]
Web: www.rpath.com
  rPath provides rBuilder and rPath Linux, the first platform for
creating and maintaining software appliances. Using rPath's
technology, application developers can evolve their business from
delivering an application to providing a complete solution via
software appliances. For customers, software appliances bring the
simplicity and value of Software as a Service (SaaS) to on-premise
application deployments. The company is headquartered in Raleigh,
North Carolina. For more information, please visit:
http://www.rpath.com.
Company: SBE
Booth/Stand: 1201
Ticker Symbol & Exchange: NASDAQ: SBEI
Media Contact: Elaine Chin
Investor Relations Contact: David Brunton
Phone: 925-355-2000
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.sbei.com
  SBE designs and provides IP-based networking solutions for an
extensive range of applied computing applications. SBE delivers a
portfolio of scalable, standards-based hardware and software products,
including iSCSI and VoIP, designed to enable optimal performance and
rapid deployment across a wide range of next generation communications
and storage systems. Based in San Ramon, California, SBE is a publicly
traded company (NASDAQ: SBEI) with products sold worldwide through
direct sales, OEMs and system integration partners.
Company: Scalix
Booth/Stand: 1135
Media Contact: Hal Steger
Phone: 650-931-9400
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.scalix.com
  Scalix is the leading provider of enterprise email, calendaring
and collaboration software based on Linux and open source. Scalix
allows companies of all sizes to reduce the cost and complexity of
their email environment with a richly-featured, reliable and scalable
messaging solution that blends seamlessly with both open source and
proprietary software, including Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Active
Directory. Scalix offers customers flexibility and freedom of choice
at all levels of the IT stack from the desktop to email related
infrastructure components, helping them achieve independence from
vendor, technology and licensing lock-in.
Company: Trolltech, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 1330
Media Contact: Karen Lachtanski
Phone: 408-205-8726 (mobile)
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.trolltech.com
  Trolltech(R) is the company that makes software faster to build
and easier to use. Trolltech's magic is the combination of efficient
software development with an innovative, high-quality user experience.
Our software increases the appeal of our customer's (desktop)
applications and devices while reducing their risks and software
development costs. Trolltech's technologies accelerate the evolution
of software by unleashing the creative power of the developer.
The company's family of products include Qt(R), which sets the
standard for high-performance, cross-platform software development;
and Qtopia(R), the unrivaled application platform for the efficient
creation of Linux devices.
Company: Unison Information Systems, Ltd.
Booth/Stand: 1229
Media Contact: Robert Bready
Phone: 508-878-0008
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.unisoninfo.com
  Unison Information Systems LTD is a leading manufacturer and
reseller of secure fault tolerant storage solutions. Unison provides
high performance, cost-effective RAID, SAN, NAS, ISCSI, Disk Based
Back up, Tape Library and Server less Backup Solutions.
Over 30,000 Unison Data Storage Products have been installed worldwide
and Unison has implemented thousands more of its Value Added Partners
Storage Solutions. Unison is committed to continue providing its
customers with the latest storage products available in the
marketplace. At Unison we strive to constantly earn your business.
Company: WIN Enterprises
Booth/Stand: 1421
Media Contact: John C. Hill
Phone: (978) 688-2000 x14
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.win-ent.com
  WIN Enterprises is a leading designer and manufacturer of
x86-board-level electronics and enclosed appliances. The company works
directly with Inel and AMD on reference designs for high-performance
embedded computing designs (HPEC). The company also offers a Linux SDK
that helps trim OEM time-to-market. WIN has operations in the US (HO),
Taiwan, Beijing, India, and Milan.
Company: Wyse Technology
Booth/Stand: 1034
Media Contact: Laurie Garvey, Director Public Relations
Phone: 408-375-6552
E-mail: [email protected]
  Wyse Technology is the global leader in thin computing. Wyse and
its partners deliver the hardware, infrastructure software, and
services that comprise thin computing, allowing people to access the
information they need using the applications they want, but with
better security, manageability, and at a much lower total cost of
ownership than a PC. Thin computing allows CIOs and senior IT
professionals to reduce costs, manage risk, and deliver access to
information. Wyse is headquartered in San Jose, California, with
offices worldwide.
For more information, visit the Wyse website at http://www.wyse.com or
call 1-800-GET-WYSE.

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