by Matt Asay

Look who is coming to OSBC

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May 8, 20072 mins

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

Nikon

And 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.)