I just went through the attendee list for the Open Source Business Conference and loved what I saw. For the first time, OSBC is truly drawing a deep bench of IT buyers. It's something that we have strived for since the first show (well, the second, since the first show was intended to be a vendor strategy event), and which has finally happened. We have CIOs/VPs/Directors from the following companies (and I won't I just went through the attendee list for the Open Source Business Conference and loved what I saw. For the first time, OSBC is truly drawing a deep bench of IT buyers. It’s something that we have strived for since the first show (well, the second, since the first show was intended to be a vendor strategy event), and which has finally happened.We have CIOs/VPs/Directors from the following companies (and I won’t even bother to go into all the CXOs/VPs we have from Red Hat, MySQL, Alfresco, Microsoft, MuleSource, JasperSoft, SugarCRM, OpenBravo, Loopfuse, Zmanda, XenSource, etc. etc. – this is the place to find out what’s now and what’s coming in open source):B. M. Trading International Boise Cascade Lehman Brothers Genealogical Society of Utah Denali Oil & Gas Bank of America Sony Playstation Group Barclays Global Activision Electronic Arts H&R Block SRI International Ricoh Vancouver Community College Christian Science Monitor Los Alamos National Laboratory Golden Gate University E*Trade Leapfrog Enterprises eBay France Telecom MIT Nokia Pacific Gas & Electric Seagate Technology Orange (Telecom) Fisher Investments Washington Post Yahoo! Google SurfControl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Federal Express NikonAnd a range of others. I got tired of typing. What a great group of enterprise IT buyers! This will definitely be the best OSBC we’ve ever done. (Btw, if you’re with an IT group and are having trouble swinging the attendance fee, let me know. I may be able to intervene with InfoWorld.) Open Source