UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference

Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the way people connect with information. Google's innovations in web search and advertising have made its website a top Internet destination and its brand one of the most recognized in the world. Google maintains the world's largest online index of websites and other content, and Google makes this information freely available to anyone with an Internet connection. Google's automated search technology helps people obtain nearly instant access to relevant information from its vast online index.

Transitive Corporation is a leader in providing solutions that allow the transportability of software applications across hardware platforms. Transitive's QuickTransit solution allows applications created for one processor and operating system to run on another without any source code or binary changes. QuickTransit allows data center managers to transport legacy enterprise applications quickly and easily from outdated, proprietary hardware to modern, industry-standard platforms without incurring the costs, delays or disruptions of porting projects. QuickTransit also facilitates computer makers' migrations to new hardware platforms, accelerates software developers' time-to-market in supporting multiple hardware platforms; and makes a broader range of software available for hardware platforms. QuickTransit technology provides the engine for Apple's Rosetta translation software and is currently shipping on all of Apple's Intel-based computers. Transitive Corporation is located in Los Gatos, California with a research and development team in Manchester, UK. For more information, please visit Transitive's Web site at www.transitive.com.

Open Systems is the business and technology cornerstone at Sun Microsystems. For over 20 years Sun has believed that innovation happens everywhere. From operating systems to supercomputers, and from development tools to productivity suites, Sun is dedicated to delivering systems based on open, industry standards and open source. Today, through shared technology innovation, Sun's continued commitment to open source community development is reflected in its sponsorship of well known open source communities including OpenSolaris.org, OpenOffice.org, NetBeans.org, and key java platform communities on Java.net including Java Enterprise Edition. Sun also makes significant contributions to many industry changing open source projects Apache, GNOME and Mozilla. For more information see www.sun.com/opensource.

We are grateful to O'Reilly UK, who are sponsoring the prizes for Best Paper. O'Reilly have long been supporters of UKUUG, and will be at the Spring Conference with a selection of books for sale to delegates at discounted prices.

We are grateful to Novell for their continuing support of UKUUG as Gold Sponsoring Members.