eLiberatica 2009 » Partners

Thank you!

eLiberatica 2009 is raised to its high standards with the support of these generous organizations listed below.

The conference organizers would like to thank all of its sponsors and partners for their support. Please extend your appreciation for their effort in making this great event possible.

About sponsorship find more info in our dedicated section.

eLiberatica 2009 Sponsors

We are in the middle of discussions with prestigious organizations and companies which showed their interest in supporting and helping eLiberatica. Below is a list with the confirmed sponsors for this year:

As the sponsor of the conference your organization will experience the greatest corporate visibility and unprecedented exposure to media and Romanian public attention.

By supporting eLiberatica you will:

  • Connect with your top prospects in a pressure-free, collaborative environment
  • Associate your brand and key personnel with the leading issues and experts in the IT industry in general and Open Source and Free Software movement in special
  • Participate in the discussion, contribute to the solutions, and position your organization as a leader in your field
IBM Platinum Sponsor Sun Microsystems Gold Sponsor

International Business Machines Corporation, headquartered in Armonk, N.Y., is the world's largest information technology (IT) company. The IT leader, IBM's solutions and services span all major industries, including financial services, healthcare, government, automotive, telecommunications and education, among others. It is the diversity and breadth of our portfolio - spanning hardware, software, services, research, financing and technology - that uniquely separates IBM from other companies in the IT industry.

About IBM Romania: In 1995, IBM World Trade Corporation opened a subsidiary in Romania - "IBM Romania". Today, IBM Romania stands ready to meet the needs of its wide customer base, having its headquarters in Bucharest and a branch office in Timisoara, plus a wide Authorized Business Partners network covering the whole country and major industries.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision - "The Network is the Computer" - Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries, providing network computing infrastructure solutions that address the complex issues customers face today, including increasing demands for network access, bandwidth and storage being driven by explosive growth in network participation and sharing. Its core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek and UltraSPARC processor.

In April, 2007, Fortune Magazine proclaimed Sun Microsystems "the greenest computer company under the Sun."

NLnet Foundation Silver Sponsor RadGs Software Silver Sponsor

NLnet foundation financially supports organizations and people that contribute to an open information society. It funds software, events, educational activities - and more.
The articles of association for the NLnet foundation state: "to promote the exchange of electronic information and all that is related or beneficial to that purpose". NLnet believes in open standards and open source.

At the moment, dozens of projects and organizations are supported financially. Amongst them: research laboratory NLnet Labs, the Free Software Foundation, ThinkQuest, Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems, and the Internet Society. More on the current projects the foundation's funding comes from donations, legacies, and interest on a substantial own capital formed in 1997 by the sale of the first Dutch Internet Service Provider. Its private capital ensures an absolute independent position.


RadGs Software is mainly focused on developing the open source solution called Concept Application Server (CAS) composed of a non-http application server, a programming language, a rich framework, a thin client, an on-line IDE, developing tools, and a specification-based developing system called GyroGears. This helps providing desktop look and feel to cloud applications.

One of the main objectives of CAS/GyroGears is to dramatically reduce the developing time for typical custom applications (including CRMs, EMRs or ERPs) resulting in increased focus on the business analysis, minimizing the risk of bugs and/or logical errors, enhancing the user experience and reducing the development costs.
All the systems are cross-platform performing identically on different operating systems.

Monty Program Ab Bronze Sponsor Dell Bronze Sponsor

Monty Program Ab was founded by Michael "Monty" Widenius, the founder and creator of MySQL. It consists of some of the original MySQL engineers, some new personnel, and Monty.

"We are well funded and plan to be around for a long time. Our main areas of focus are: The Maria engine and MariaDB, a branch of the MySQL database with the Maria storage engine. Our ambition is to make this the best open and free MySQL branch for the MySQL user and developer communities. We are also interested in working with and investing in disruptive technology start-up companies that do Open Source and community products. This is done through our investment company Open Ocean S.á.r.l.

Dell Inc. listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Dell is a leading global systems and services company and No. 34 on the Fortune 500. The company's principal activity is to design, develop, manufacture, market, service and support a wide range of computer systems.

The primary products include enterprise systems, notebook computers and desktop computer systems. Enterprise systems include PowerEdge servers, PowerVault, Dell|EqualLogic si Dell|EMC storage products, PowerConnect network switches and Dell Precision desktop and mobile workstations.

Free Software Foundation Europe Bronze Sponsor The University of British Columbia Bronze Sponsor
Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit and in some countries charitable organisation dedicated to Free Software. FSFE maintains that the freedoms to use, study, share and improve software are critical to ensure equal participation in the information age. We work to create general understanding and support for software freedom in politics, law and society-at-large. We also promote the development of technologies, such as the GNU/Linux operating system, that deliver these freedoms to all participants in digital society. FSFE's work is made possible by many individual contributions, in particular to the Fellowship of FSFE.

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is one of the top Canadian public research university with campuses in Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia.
UBC consistently ranks as one of the top three Canadian universities by Research InfoSource and ranks as second in Canada and thirty-sixth in the world in the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
UBC has the highest percentage of Ph. D level professors among all public universities in North America and is one of only two Canadian universities to have membership in Universitas 21.

RedHat Bronze Sponsor BIT Software Bronze Sponsor

Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices worldwide.

Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high-quality, low-cost technology accessible. Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with a focus on security and ease of management.
Red Hat is present in Romania through it's partner SNS.

BIT Software was established in 1993 having as main activity the development and implementation of ERP/CRM systems. In 1994, BIT Software started the development of the ERP Socrate+, system that was successfully implemented to more than 150 companies in Romania. Starting with 2004, the company moved to open source technologies, launching on the Romanian market in 2006, Socrateopen.
For more information regarding BIT Software and Socrateopen please visit www.bitsoftware.ro and www.socrateopen.ro.

Mozilla Bronze Sponsor Drizzle Bronze Sponsor

Mozilla is a global community dedicated to building free, open source products and technologies that improve the online experience for people everywhere. We work in the open with a highly disciplined, transparent and cooperative development process, under the umbrella of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
" We are helping make the Internet a place... where you and your neighbors build the world you want; that generates not only economic value, but also civic and social value; that is optimized for multiple languages and locales; that is trustworthy and has minimal risk for users."

Drizzle is a community-driven project based on the popular MySQL DBMS that is focused on MySQL's original goals of ease-of-use, reliability and performance. The Drizzle team is removing non-essential code, refactoring the remaining code, switching to a microkernel architecture (with well-defined APIs) and generally making Drizzle into a lean, mean query-running machine.
Participation is easy and fun. The Drizzle project is run using open source software (like Bazaar) on open and public resources in a true open source fashion.

Fedora Project 2 Stars Community Sponsor Microsoft Bronze Sponsor

Fedora is a Linux based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project, a partnership of free software community members from around the globe.

"We strongly believe in the bedrock principles that created all the components of our operating system, and because of this we guarantee that Fedora will always be free for anybody, anywhere, to use, modify and distribute."

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
The mission of Microsoft Romania is to increase our partners' and customers' satisfaction with the Microsoft cutting-edge technology, to contribute, with professionalism and honesty, towards the development of a local IT industry, by implementing the corporation's business model.
For more information about Microsoft Romania please visit www.microsoft.com/romania.

Open Agile Romania Conference Event Partner O'Reilly Media 1 Star Community Sponsor

Open Agile Romania is the first big event in the country about managing software development with Agile methods, about combining techniques, technologies and attitudes to create value both for customers and companies creating software. This event is not about a single method of work, it's about an opportunity to share and discuss thoughts and experiences from software development. Presentations, workshops and open discussions are meant to offer new insights from Agile and software development world.
The event is chaired, organized and managed by Maria Diaconu and an organizational committee formatted by Agile specialists, students and academics.

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.

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