GOSCON is made possible through the efforts and contributions of a host of organizations. If you'd like to participate as a sponsor at GOSCON 08, please email Deborah Bryant, conference director, at or call her at 971.533.8050. 

Industry Sponsors: The following premier sponsors have made general financial contributions to GOSCON 2007. The expansion of this year's conference would not have been possible without their support.

Diamond Sponsor

IBM is the world's largest information technology services company, with more than 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business.

Gold Sponsor

Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”, founded in 1975, is a worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that enable governments to achieve more efficiency and improved service levels – without increasing budgetsIn addition to being an active participant within the open source community, Microsoft is committed to open approaches that enable interoperability among heterogeneous technologies, such as Windows, Linux and open source.

Silver Sponsors

Unisys brings together best-in-class Open Source solutions, value-add technology, services, and key commercial offerings that use Open Source components. The Unisys Open and Secure Integrated Solutions (OASIS) framework addresses key requirements for a secure, integrated software stack, enterprise platforms, and end-to-end support of an application infrastructure built upon Open Source software. Unisys is a member of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), joining other leading companies dedicated to making enterprise-class open software solutions work together.

Bronze Sponsors

Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI) was founded in 2007 by Stuart Cohen, a veteran IT executive and former chief executive officer at the Open Source Development Labs. Cohen has partnered with Evan Bauer, former chief technology officer at Credit Suisse, to bring together like-minded companies to build software applications at half the cost of outsourcing. CSI introduces a market-changing process that applies open source methodologies to building Collaborative Software - software developed or acquired by a variety of companies at a fraction of internal developer or outsourcing costs.

DLT Solutions offers Enterprise Platform Solutions for open source computing from industry leaders including Red Hat . Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the most deployed and trusted open source system available to government agencies, provides the most comprehensive suite of Linux solutions designed for mission-critical enterprise computing.

Conference Organizers: Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab

The Open Source Lab (OSL) is located at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. Its purpose is to help accelerate the adoption of open source software across the globe and aid the community that develops and uses it. The OSL's talented team of students and full-time staff do this by focusing on softw are development as well as hosting the world's largest non-for-profit open source projects. Production of GOSCON 07 is an extension of the OSL mission to educate, support and create community around Open Source. Oregon State University is a comprehensive, public, research university and a member of the Oregon University System.