Sponsors
OSL Alliance Members
We are very grateful to our members who support us and make it possible for us to support the open source community. Below you can find a list of OSL Alliance members that support the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. For a list of individual donors, please see our Friends of the OSL page.
Platinum Sponsors
Google is one of the world's leading search engines and quickly becoming a leader in the web services industry. From their website, "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." The OSL shares in this mission by organizing the resources of the Open Source community, making it easier for developers to focus on writing code.
Google sponsors the OSL through financial grants. This funding helps the OSL to provide the community with physical hosting, bandwidth, and to cover the cost of "smart-hands" support. Google is a big supporter of the Open Source movement, producing open code of their own (see code.google.com), and sponsoring the Summer of Code program. Each year Google puts millions of dollars towards Open Source research and development through this program.
IBM
IBM has helped contribute to projects hosted here at the Open Source Lab by donating hardware resources and through financial contributions.
IBM has long been an advocate, sponsor and contributor to the Linux developer community and Open Technology development. Continuing this tradition of support, IBM has contributed a number of IBM970 and POWER5 servers to the Open Source Lab for the purpose of Linux and Open Source project development by the community on the Power Architecture. Please see: http://powerdev.osuosl.org/ for more information and SSH-based remote access to Linux on POWER servers. Also contributed a 4-way POWER5 system used for the development and testing of the Gentoo distribution for POWER.
RealNetworks
RealNetworks, Inc. provides the universal platform for the delivery of any digital media from any point of origin across virtually any network to any person on any Internet-enabled device anywhere in the world. RealNetworks supports the OSL with financial contributions.
In 1995, RealNetworks, Inc. pioneered the entire Internet media industry, and continues to fuel its exponential growth. Because the Internet was built to handle text-based information, not audio and video and other rich media, RealNetworks, Inc. foresaw the need for specific solutions that could handle the creation, delivery and consumption of media via the Internet. That led RealNetworks, Inc. to invent and release the RealPlayer and RealAudio in 1995.
Today, hundreds of millions of RealPlayers have been downloaded throughout the world take advantage of RealNetworks, Inc. world-class media creation, delivery and playback technology.
Schooner Information Technology
Schooner Information Technology has pioneered a new generation of data access appliances specifically architected for information-intensive Web 2.0 and cloud computing datacenters.
In support of the open source community, Schooner has donated its flagship appliances for Memcached and MySQL Enterprise™ with InnoDB to the OSU Open Source Lab. By combining the most advanced technologies currently available, including highly parallel flash controllers, high-throughput networking, and Intel’s innovative multi-thread Nehalem processor with a proprietary software optimization environment, Schooner is revolutionizing storage for information intensive companies using Memcached and MySQL. The result is Schooner’s highly integrated hardware and software solutions for Memcached and MySQL offering breakthrough performance, scalability, and reliability while substantially decreasing overall power consumption.
TDS Telecom
TDS Telecom is a major telephone and Internet services provider. TDS Telecom has made a large donation of bandwidth to the OSL, helping millions of people review or download free software every day.
For a five-year period, the Open Source Lab will receive 600 megabits of bandwidth - a volume of Internet connectivity that is more than five times higher than the total used by the rest of the university. In addition, OSU servers will be hosted in a TDS Data Center. The bandwidth provided gives the OSL the ability to host FTP servers in both Atlanta and Chicago where files for many open source projects are mirrored for download from the main FTP server hosted in Corvallis, OR.
Gold Sponsors
Collaborative Software Initiative
The Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI) brings together like-minded companies to build software applications at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. CSI introduces a market-changing process that applies open source methodologies to building collaboratively developed software.
Silver Sponsors
Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation promotes, protects, and standardizes Linux. To achieve these tasks, the LF provides legal services to Linux developers, collaborates on the Linux Standards Base (LSB), hosts events for the Linux community, and responds in the press to competitors' attacks on Linux.
Bronze Sponsors
ActiveState
ActiveState creates and provides industry-recognized tools and professional business solutions for corporations and developers who use dynamic languages. ActiveState's open source language distributions - ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl - are renowned for their quality and relied upon by companies and developers worldwide.
CiviCRM
CiviCRM is an open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, open source, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. Integration with both Drupal and Joomla! content management systems gives you the tools to connect, communicate and activate your supporters and constituents.
