Ohio LinuxFest 2005
annual conference and event

Ohio LinuxFest 2005 - Exhibitors

Name	Type	Description
Digium	.com	Based in high-tech Huntsville, Alabama, Digium is the creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first Open Source PBX. Used in combination with Digium's PCI telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over TDM, switched, and Ethernet architectures.
Novell	.com	Making the move to Linux - safely, intelligently, and cost effectively. No matter where your organization is on the path towards Linux adoption, Novell is at your service. We have the expertise, services, products, and experience to help you maximize the value of Linux and open source in your business.
IBM	.com	Linux can help your business expand beyond the limitations of proprietary vendor software and hardware and offer the enterprise computing qualities of UNIX with cost-effective hardware choices, from x86 servers to 64-bit computing and supercomputers.
Astaro Internet Security	.com	Astaro Corporation develops and markets integrated network security solutions that deliver high-quality protection at low cost. Founded by renowned network and Linux security specialists Jan Hichert, Markus Hennig and Gert Hansen in 2000, Astaro Corporation is co-headquartered in Boston, MA and Karlsruhe, Germany.
N2Net	.com	N2Net, is a leader in Internet communications solutions offering a comprehensive range of Internet services to business, SOHO (small office-home office) and residential customers. Providing Internet Access, Web hosting, Co-Location and other value-added services, N2Net offers affordable and reliable Internet Solutions.
Hurricane Labs	.com	Hurricane Labs provides Information Security Training, Consulting and Managed Security Services. Security work is the only work that is performed by Hurricane Labs. This focus on security permits us to excel at our core strength.
Pantek	.com	Pantek provides comprehensive IT services to organizations who utilize Open Source technologies. Founded in 1995, our vision is to provide expert IT services to organizations who utilize Open Source technologies across the globe. Our commitment to our clients is unparalleled, and our clients value us as a technology partner and a seamless extension of their IT staff.
Westfield Insurance, Business Solutions Center	.com	Westfield is an insurance, banking and related financial services group of businesses. Our winning vision embraces innovation and opportunities in a changing world. Our strength comes through relationships we have built with employees, business partners and customers.
ImageStream	.com	ImageStream Internet Solutions, Inc. is the world's leading supplier of Linux routers and WAN cards. ImageStream has achieved industry leading price and performance for high-density T1/E1, DS3/E3, OC3, and OC12 routing applications.
Strickling Integrated Solutions	.com	Strickling Integrated Solutions is a consulting company located in downtown Columbus.
Potential Technologies	.com	Potential Technologies specializes in software development for small business. Contact us with your unique needs and we'll work out a plan and an estimate on how you can get the software you need for a price that might surprise you.
Spliced Networks	.com	Spliced Networks offers Custom Linux development, specialized AppOS™ support and IT consulting services. We have developed a powerful build system for creating AppOS™ based products. The build system allows us to build Custom appliances, optimized for specific hardware configurations for potentially thousands of clients, with a very small engineering team.
Sybase	.com	For more than 20 years, Sybase has been a leader in developing and expanding innovative database technology for emerging markets. Since our founding in a Berkeley, California garage in 1984, we have earned the trust of many of the world's leading companies for our ability to manage information and deliver unsurpassed levels of data reliability and security.
FreeLists	.com	One of the Internet's largest Free mailing list/group providers, FreeLists supports thousands of technology-focused groups (including those of many LUG's) and hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Contact: staff@freelists.org
Rocketcalc	.com	Rocketcalc puts productivity into high performance computing with innovative, ready-to-run personal supercomputers, advanced easy-to-use software, and expert support and services. We help increase the value of your multiprocessor computing investment by making performance computing easier to use, more versatile and more affordable.
DeVry University Columbus	.com	As one of the 26 DeVry campuses throughout the United States and Canada, DeVry/Columbus is part of one of the largest private, degree-granting, higher education systems in North America and is well-positioned as a leader in technology-based education. Whether you are an individual searching for information about colleges or an employer looking to hire graduates who have been educated for today's high-tech workplace, DeVry offers an innovative approach to education.
LinuxBox	.com	THE LINUX BOX is a project management and consulting practice, specializing in open source technology and the Linux platform. We help customers assess, select, customize and deploy best-of-breed open source solutions. We concentrate on knowledge transfer and training, applications development and porting, and network support services.
KDE.org	.org	KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system.
NOTACON	.org	NOTACON, an annual conference held in Cleveland, Ohio, explores and showcases technologies, philosophy and creativity often overlooked at other "hacker cons". Our desire is not to supplant other events, but completement them and strike a balance that has gone unnoticed in our community for far too long.
Symphony OS	.org	Symphony OS is a Desktop computer operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix GNU/Linux. Rather than using the KDE or Gnome Desktop environments as most Linux distributions do, the Symphony OS team has created the revolutionary Mezzo Desktop environment. Symphony provides what we consider to be the easiest to use Linux experience there is.
CAcert	.org	CAcert.org is a community driven, Certificate Authority that issues certificates to the public at large for free.
FreeGeek Columbus	.org	FreeGeek Columbus provides computers and training for limited-resource populations in Central Ohio through redistribution of used equipment and the use of Free Software. FreeGeek Columbus is committed to Free Software, responsible electronics recycling, and community engagement.
Central Indiana Linux Users Group	.org	We are a group of Linux novices, experts and enthusiasts from Indianapolis and surrounding areas that enjoy getting together to share ideas and solutions, and to learn about Linux.
Ohio Linux User Groups	.org	Ohio Linux User Groups.