Fred Gallagher

Ingres Corporation is a leading provider of open source information management services to the enterprise. Built on over 25 years of technology investment, Ingres is a leader in software and service innovation, providing the enterprise with proven reliability combined with the value and flexibility of open source. The Ingres Database offers high-volume transaction processing, high availability, multi-platform support, and security for mission-critical application deployments. Its software and support services are designed to provide customers these enterprise-class features at a lower total cost of ownership. It also offers its database software as part of integrated software appliances, enabling customers to rapidly and cost-effectively deploy, manage, and maintain open source solutions throughout the enterprise. These appliances are the result of its work with leading business intelligence and content management providers. Its business intelligence appliance delivers advanced reporting and data analysis capabilities; while its appliance for content management allows for the management of structured and unstructured data. As an open source company, Ingres has an active community of developers that continually test its code, influence their product roadmap by submitting specific feature requests, and contribute code for inclusion in its software. When integrating their applications with its database, developers increase their productivity given their direct access to its source code. The company offers their customers a variety of support options ranging from online access to on-site support. Ingres is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has major development, sales, and support centers throughout the world, supporting thousands of customers in the United States and internationally.

Qlusters, Inc. provides data center technology and services. It provides open source data center management and automation solutions for enterprise data centers. The company was founded by Ofer Shoshan and Moshe Bar in 2001 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

VMware, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud infrastructure and business mobility. Its products include Software-Defined Data Center, Hybrid Cloud Computing, and End-User Computing. It supports modernizing data centers, integrating public clouds, empowering digital workspaces and transforming security. The company was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion in 1998 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Seagate Technology Plc engages in the development, production, and distribution of data storage products and electronic data storage solutions. Its products include hard disk drives, solid state hybrid drives, solid state drives, peripheral component interconnect express cards, serial advanced technology attachment controllers, storage subsystems and computing solutions. The firm offers its products under the Backup Plus and Expansion product lines, and Maxtor and LaCie brands. The company was founded by Finis Conner, Syed Iftikar, Doug Mahon, David Thomas Mitchell, and Alan F. Shugart in 1978 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Actian Corp. provides open source database management software and support services. It offers consumer-style applications that automate business actions triggered by real-time changes in data. Its products include Actian data integration, data management, and analytics databases. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Pervasive Software, Inc. provides embedded database software and cloud-based services. Its products include Pervasive PSQL, Pervasive DataExchange, Pervasive Data Integrator, Pervasive DataRush and Pervasive DataSolutions. Pervasive PSQL database provides embeddable data management. Pervasive DataExchange provides solution to eliminate data loss and down time due to system crashes or site disasters. Pervasive Data Integrator provides cost-effective extraction, transformation and flow of nearly any kind of data between sources throughout the organization. Pervasive DataRush is a software development platform. Pervasive DataSolutions gives customers affordable, subscription based integration delivered as configurable services on the Pervasive DataCloud. The company was founded by Nancy Woodward in 1994 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.