LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Exhibitor Profiles.

SAN FRANCISCO -- LinuxWorld Conference & Expo takes place Aug. 14 - 17 at the Moscone Center. For in-depth information about the event visit http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/. Below are profiles from LinuxWorld Conference & Expo exhibitors.

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Company: Alexander LAN, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 604
Media Contact: Dirk A. D. Smith, President
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.alexander.com

    Alexander LAN, Inc. provides software utilities to IT
professionals that simplify system management and prevent system
failures.
    Alexander SMK (System Management Kit for Windows & Linux) alerts
IT staff when changing conditions threaten stability, including hard
drives, memory, fan speed, temperatures, etc. It warns of asset
changes and provides Power Management which reduces energy costs by up
to 80%. SMK is vendor-agnostic, browser-based, and it installs in
minutes, configures itself, and begins reporting system state in 60
seconds.
    Alexander SPK (System Protection Kit for Windows & NetWare)
prevents, recovers, diagnoses, and reports the cause of system crashes
(BSOD/abend).

Company: AMAX Information Technologies
Booth/Stand: 310
Media Contact: James Huang
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.amaxit.com

    AMAX is an ISO-9001:2000 certified nationwide custom computer
manufacturing company. We are also among VarBusiness' 500 largest
solution providers, and one of the top CRN 50 Leading System Builders.
We deliver solutions to OEMs in the fast growing semi-conductor
equipment, telecommunications, appliance, entertainment, medical,
printing, bio-chemical, banking, and computer industries. Our
customized solutions include industrial computers, embedded systems,
appliances, servers, and storage subsystems. AMAX provides total
manufacturing solutions -- from design prototyping to full-volume,
build-to-stock / build-to-order system manufacturing, complete
logistics management, customer-supplied software loading &
reconfiguration, custom packaging, labels & testing, domestic &
international drop-shipping, technical and RMA support.

Company: American Power Conversion
Booth/Stand: 628
Ticker Symbol & Exchange: APCC & NASDAQ
Media Contact: Nicole Glidden
Investor Relations Contact: Debbie Hancock
Phone: [phone]
Web: www.apcc.com

    Founded in 1981, American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC) is
a leading provider of global, end-to-end solutions for real-time
infrastructure. APC's comprehensive products and services for home and
corporate environments improve the availability, manageability and
performance of sensitive electronic, network, communication and
industrial equipment of all sizes. APC offers a wide variety of
products for network-critical physical infrastructure including
InfraStruXure, its revolutionary architecture for on-demand data
centers, as well as physical threat management products through the
company's NetBotz division. These products and services help companies
increase the availability and reliability of their IT systems.
Headquartered in West Kingston, Rhode Island, APC reported sales of $2
billion for the year ended December 31, 2005.

Company: ANTs software inc.
Booth/Stand: 716
Ticker Symbol & Exchange: ANTS:OTC BB
Media Contact: Cesar Rojas
Investor Relations Contact: Ken Ruotolo
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.ants.com

    ANTs software inc. develops affordable, high-performance data
management software that is compatible with all popular databases. Our
mission is to help customers reduce hardware, software, and
development costs by providing exceptional database price performance.
With IBM, ANTs has developed the ANTs Consolidation Engine (ACE) for
DB2. ACE allows for painless migration to DB2 from Oracle, Sybase, SQL
Server and others; making consolidation of many expensive databases
realistic.

Company: Appro
Booth/Stand: 1028
Media Contact: Maria McLaughlin
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.appro.com

    Appro's headquarters is in Milpitas, CA. Appro has an R&D and
manufacturing center in Asia and a sales and service office in
Houston, Texas. APPRO enables a variety of network computing
applications by developing powerful, scalable, and reliable clusters,
servers, storage subsystems and high-end workstations for the
high-performance computing (HPC), Internet computing and cluster
market. http://www.appro.com.

Company: Coraid
Booth/Stand: 539
Media Contact: Rebecca Jepsen
Investor Relations Contact: Jim Kemp
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.coraid.com

    At the 2006 LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, Coraid will
introduce several new features for EtherDrive Storage including
Ethernet Console which allows remote access control, RAIDShield which
provides disk protection, and an Apple OS X driver, significantly
expanding Coraid's market. AoE lowers the cost of a SAN to less than
$0.93/GB. AoE is a non-routed protocol that eliminates the overhead of
TCP/IP and the expense of ToE (TCP/IP off-load Engine) cards and HBAs
(Host Bus Adapters). AoE delivers simple, scalable storage at an
affordable price -- a great iSCSI alternative.

Company: HighPoint Technologies, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 205
Media Contact: Allen Mah
Phone: [phone] x116
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: highpoint-tech.com

    HighPoint Technologies, founded in 1995 specializes in providing
multi-channel SATA RAID solutions that meet customer performance
requirements. To ensure that their information is stored securely and
backed up reliably, many organizations rely on HighPoint multi-channel
SATA RAID solutions and RAID management utilities. With its new family
of 3.0Gbps SATA II RAID Controllers HighPoint is paving the way for
customers to gain the benefits of the latest storage technologies.
With a vision of delivering RAID storage solutions to all customer
types HighPoint products are well positioned in the industry to meet
the needs for the (SMB) small to medium business and meet requirements
for the enterprise customer.

Company: Ingres Corporation
Booth/Stand: 410
Media Contact: Cyndi Schott
Investor Relations Contact: Rob Swadosh
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.ingres.com

    Ingres Corporation is the leading Business Open Source software
company, created in November 2005. Based on more than 20 years of
technology investment, Ingres offers enterprise-class, highly scalable
databases and tools that are currently used by more than 10,000 global
customers and partners. Ingres's database technology is also embedded
in a large number of major third-party software offerings including
CA's Unicenter and eTrust. Ingres Corporation is based in Redwood
City, California, with major development, sales and support centers in
Islandia, Long Island, and Slough, England.

Company: NetEffect, Inc
Booth/Stand: 402
Media Contact: Greg Wise
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.neteffect.com

    NetEffect is a network connectivity solutions company providing
next generation, multi-gigabit iWARP Ethernet products that delivers
high throughput for networking, fast access for storage, and low
latency for clustering. NetEffect solutions can concurrently support
legacy Ethernet infrastructures and the new generation of storage and
clustering applications, at 10Gbps speeds. The NE010 is a low-latency,
high-performance 10Gb iWARP Ethernet channel adapter. NetEffect's
NE010 is the first full implementation of the iWARP extensions to the
Ethernet standard enabling Ethernet to simultaneously support
networking, storage, and clustering applications with superior
performance.

Company: Nobix Inc.
Booth/Stand: 207
Media Contact: Nanette Wong
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.nobix.com

    Nobix has been providing the best value in the IT management
software market for over 20 years. We deliver IT management products
specifically for job scheduling, and problem alerting and notification
at prices lower than alternative products. Our simple to use, yet
powerful products cost-effectively manage interdependent IT jobs and
deliver problem alerts across UNIX, Linux, MPE/iX, and Windows
environments.

Company: Novell Inc
Booth/Stand: 604
Ticker Symbol & Exchange: NOVL
Media Contact: Bruce Lowry
Investor Relations Contact: Keith Clarke
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.novell.com

    Novell is a global leader in enterprise class software and
services, with over $1B in sales and 100 offices around the world. We
got there by providing a flexible combination of open source and
commercial technologies, based on open standards. We help our
customers manage, simplify, secure, and integrate their IT systems.
This helps them lower cost and complexity while at the same time
increasing return on their investment. Novell provides global services
and support and has a strong history of innovation an

Company: Openbravo
Booth/Stand: 1440
Media Contact: Naldo Peliks
Investor Relations Contact: Marco DeVries
Phone:  [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.openbravo.com

    Openbravo offers an open source web-based ERP for SMEs, and
professional support services for partners who want to implement it
worldwide. Since its inception in 2001, Openbravo has already been
successfully implemented in a number of different industries. Licensed
in open source, it includes robust functionalities such as
procurement, warehouse, projects, manufacturing, sales and financials.
Basic CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and BI (Business
Intelligence) are built in as well.

Company: Open Source Systems
Booth/Stand: 316
Media Contact: Jared Giles
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.opensourcesystems.com

    Open Source Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of high
performance, rapidly deployed and cost effective data center solutions
for enterprise, commercial, government, entertainment and academic
customers. Founded in 2001 as Open Source Storage and headquartered in
the heart of Silicon Valley, OSS has been providing high-end server
and storage solutions for data centers worldwide. The company custom
tailors its systems to meet or exceed customers' large-scale data
center needs with solutions designed for the constant demands of
today's most mission-critical applications.

Company: Palamida
Booth/Stand: 1245
Media Contact: Katie Walker; 781-672-3145
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.palamida.com

    Palamida answers the question "What's in your code?" by providing
an unprecedented level of software transparency. By empowering
customers with insightful information about their software assets,
Palamida products and services offer accurate evaluations of software
during acquisitions, on-going testing against intellectual property
policy during application development and governance of software
environments. Founded in 2003, Palamida is led by industry veterans
and backed by leading venture capital firms. Investors include Hummer
Winblad Venture Partners, Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners, WaldenVC and
Stanford University.

Company: Pentaho Corporation
Booth/Stand: 438
Media Contact: Tony Keller, [e-mail], 719-634-8279
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.pentaho.org

    Pentaho provides a full spectrum of open source Business
Intelligence (BI) capabilities from reporting to OLAP to dashboards to
data mining. Pentaho's powerful products support a wide range of
business initiatives including sales analysis, customer analysis,
financial reporting, predictive analytics, and KPI dashboards, and are
highly customizable for customers' unique requirements. Pentaho is the
world's most popular open source BI suite, and is consistently in the
top 100 projects out of more than 100,000 on www.sourceforge.net.
Pentaho provides a complete BI suite via a free open source license,
as well as a Professional Edition that includes additional enterprise
deployment capabilities.

Company: R Cubed Technologies
Booth/Stand: 1404
Media Contact: Nathan Rockhold
Phone: 309-34-CUBED ext 101
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: http://www.rcubedtech.com

    R Cubed Technologies is a leading developer and marketer of
innovative technology hardware and solutions for today's global
market. Since our beginning we have been recognized by Fortune 500
companies and, most importantly, by our customers as a leader in
information technology, open source and test and measurement
solutions. R Cubed Technologies also specializes in providing Linux
laptops. We customize our Linux installations on the each laptop so
that our customers don't lose any of the normal functions of a laptop.

Company: Revelation Software
Media Contact: Cathleen Moran
Investor Relations Contact: Mike Ruane
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.revelation.com

    Revelation Software offers a suite of application development
tools that take full advantage of network computing, messaging, and
client server platforms. Their flagship product is OpenInsight for
Linux (OIL). The company has offices in NJ, as well as a distributor
in the United Kingdom, and a subsidiary in Australia. OpenInsight is
the only database development and application environment that
provides both Windows, Linux and Java-based GUI s tools to develop and
deploy web-based and client server applications that support native
XML, SQL, Lotus Notes. There are 1.6 mm licenses of Revelation
products across 80k deployed sites worldwide.

Company:  rPath
Booth/Stand: booth 1344
Media Contact: Kristi Lee - Crossroads Public Relations
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.rpath.com

    rPath provides rBuilder and rPath Linux, the first platform for
creating and maintaining software appliances. Using rBuilder,
developers combine their application with rPath Linux and related open
source components to create a software appliance that installs on
industry standard hardware or as a virtual machine. For customers,
software appliances make the operating system disappear -- they get
the benefits of the application without the hassles of OS
installation, configuration, and maintenance. For application
providers, reducing software complexity and cost expands potential
markets and channel opportunities. The company is headquartered in
Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information, visit www.rpath.com.

Company: SBE, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 1824
Ticker Symbol & Exchange: SBEI (NASDAQ)
Media Contact: Kim Whipple, [e-mail]
Investor Relations Contact: David Brunton, [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.sbei.com

    SBE designs and provides iSCSI-based storage networking solutions
for an extensive range of business critical applications, including
Disk-to-Disk Back-up and Disaster Recovery. SBE delivers an
affordable, expandable, and easy-to-use portfolio of software
solutions designed to enable optimal performance and rapid deployment
across a wide range of next generation storage systems. Based in San
Ramon, California, SBE is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: SBEI)

with products sold worldwide through direct sales, OEMs and system
integration partners.

Company: ServePath
Booth/Stand: 444
Media Contact: Michelle Garrett
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.servepath.com

    ServePath is a San Francisco server hosting, co-location and
managed service provider. The company offers a range of custom Linux
dedicated servers, load balanced clusters, security and backup
services. Thousands of companies worldwide look to ServePath for its
reliability, customization, and speed. All ServePath servers include a
full 100Mbps on our Screaming-Fast Network(TM) and are backed by the
company's 10,000% guaranteed(TM) service level agreement. For more
information, please contact ServePath at www.ServePath.com, or call
1-866-321-7284.

Company: Splunk
Booth/Stand: 1433
Media Contact: Christopher Fucanan
Investor Relations Contact: Christine Fife
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.splunk.com

    In an increasingly on-demand world, IT failures have a severe
impact on a company's revenue, productivity and costs. Splunk is
search software that indexes any fast moving IT data as it happens,
making it possible to actually see inside the data center at runtime.
Splunk enables system administrators, developers and support staff
everywhere to diagnose and resolve problems faster resulting in
shorter mean time to repair (MTTR), better service availability and
reduced cost of incident response. Splunk makes it faster, easier and
cheaper to troubleshoot applications, systems and underlying IT
infrastructure in real-time.

Company: SteelEye Technology
Booth/Stand: 536
Media Contact: Bob Williamson, VP of Marketing
Investor Relations Contact: Paul Adams, CEO
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.steeleye.com

    Whether your IT environment is composed of 32bit or 64bit physical
servers, virtual machines, Linux, Windows or any combination,
SteelEye's solutions can provide complete protection against both
planned and unplanned downtime. The SteelEye family of high
availability clustering, data replication and disaster recovery
solutions are easy to deploy and operate, cost effective, and enable
enterprises of all sizes to ensure continuous availability of
business-critical applications, servers and data. The solutions are
proven in the most demanding of environments with over 6000 licenses
sold world-wide.

Company: Storix, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 1534
Media Contact: Manuel Altamirano
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: http://www.storix.com//LWSF06BW
(NOTE: In the above Internet address, there are double forward slashes
between ".com" and "LWSF06BW". These symbols may not appear properly
in some systems.)

    Storix System Backup Administrator (SBAdmin) for Linux and AIX
combines a user-friendly graphical user interface for daily backup
management with the most complete and flexible full system recovery
process available. SBAdmin supports all Intel-based (x86/Pentium), IBM
pSeries (32/64-bit), and HP Integrity (IA-64) systems. Unlike
"bare-metal" restore products, SBAdmin can rebuild the system from the
ground up. Supporting various filesystems, LVM and software RAID
devices, SBA's system installation interface allows the user to
reconfigure the system to restore onto completely different hardware,
change filesystem types, migrate from disk partitions to LVM or
software RAID, and much more.

Company: SugarCRM
Booth/Stand: 1444
Media Contact: Chris Harrick
Phone: [phone]
E-mail:  [e-mail]
Web: http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm

    SugarCRM is the world's leading provider of commercial open source
customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all
sizes. SugarCRM offers a flexible, cost-effective alternative to
proprietary applications that yields greater user adoption and a
faster return on investment. SugarCRM offers several deployment
options, including on-demand, on-premise and appliance-based solutions
to suit customers' security, integration and configuration needs.

Company: SugarForge.org
Booth/Stand: 1445
Media Contact: Chris Harrick
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm

    SugarForge.org is the destination for community collaboration on
SugarCRM extensions, modules, language packs and themes. At
SugarForge.org, developers can find the resources, people and projects
to build and distribute community-developed Sugar extensions.

Company: Trolltech
Booth/Stand: 1228
Ticker Symbol & Exchange: TROLL, Oslo Stock Exchange
Media Contact: Karen Lachtanski, Director Corporate Com
Investor Relations Contact:   Knut Stalen, CFO
Phone: [phone] x107
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.trolltech.com

    Trolltech(R) is the company that makes software faster to build
and easier to use. Trolltech's magic inspires software innovation and
drives improved usability. The magic is the combination of efficient
software development with an innovative, high-quality user experience.
The company's family of products include Qt(R), which sets the
standard for high-performance, cross-platform software development;
and Qtopia(R), the unrivaled application platform for the efficient
creation of Linux devices. For more information about Trolltech,
please visit http://www.trolltech.com.

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