Our Sponsors

At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them. We run our business in much the same way, and believe our seven core business units offer the greatest potential to serve our customers in the coming decade. We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve our customers.(read more...)

Serving the regions of Central Ohio and Charlotte, North Carolina, Quick Solutions, Inc. (QSI) is a leading IT Staffing and Solutions Company. We've built a loyal client base by delivering what we promise - on time, at or below budget - and we've nurtured long-term relationships with consultants through our commitment to our employees. We offer both clients and consultants a unique environment for building dynamic partnerships - and generating outstanding results. We believe that a strong community is important, and we are proud to be part of CodeMash.

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Data Dynamics provides award-winning software tools and controls for Visual Studio .NET developers with a primary product focus on data analysis and information reporting. The company also offers User Interface development products. Currently offering a trio of .NET products that includes SharpGraph for .NET, SharpUI for .NET, and the highly praised ActiveReports for .NET, Data Dynamics is a technology innovator, creating products that are easy-to-license, easy-to-use, and easy-to-deploy.(read more...)

Introducing an IT company that understands business just as much as technology.

There's a really good reason why Pillar not only survived, but thrived, during the dot bomb. We understand business. And we've worked hard to bridge the gap between IT departments and CEOs.

Sure, technology is our bread and butter. But since it's typically the business that's footing the bills, we figure it just makes good sense to truly understand business problems— then use IT to solve those problems and deliver value as quickly as possible.

At Pillar, we've been doing just that for the past 10 years, while scooping up the best and brightest minds in the industry along the way.

As a high-end boutique consulting firm, today we offer Smart IT training, consulting, mentoring and staffing services to Fortune 1000 companies throughout the United States, and we maintain exclusive agreements with selected partners like Borland, BEA and Cognos.(read more...)

CodeGear delivers innovative, high-productivity development tools for a wide spectrum of software developers, from individuals to enterprise teams. Formed from the Developer Tools Division of Borland to focus exclusively on technical innovation and support for software developers, CodeGear has more than 25 years of market leadership, and nearly 5 million developers using its products worldwide.




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Compuware Corporation is a recognized industry leader in enterprise software and IT services that help maximize the value of technology investments. We offer a powerful set of integrated solutions for enterprise IT including IT portfolio management, application development, quality assurance and application service management.(read more...)

asp.netPRO is the premier information resource for the ASP.NET developer community. It teaches by example. By showing valuable programming techniques in action — through real-world apps and code — we help professional software developers build, debug, deploy, and run the next generation of dynamic, distributed Web applications quickly and easily. (read more...)

Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients throughout North America. We deliver business-driven technology solutions that enable our clients to gain competitive advantage, make their businesses more responsive to market opportunities and threats, strengthen relationships with customers, suppliers and partners, improve productivity and reduce information technology costs.(read more...)

Stout Systems helps company officers, managers, and business owners who are upset because they have a software project that is in trouble, are under pressure because of a lack of qualified high tech staff, or are frustrated by the quality of high tech personnel referred to them from recruiting companies.

Stout Systems provides contract and outsourced software development as well as recruitment of high tech professionals. We have built our reputation on providing our clients with 1) technically sound, leading edge programming, and 2) thoroughly screened, highly qualified personnel for high tech departments and businesses.(read more...)

Build Your Best, Without Limits or Compromise...

Developer Express engineers feature-complete visual components and IDE tools for Visual Studio .NET. Our technologies help you build your best, see complex software with greater clarity, increase your productivity and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. All of our products come with a 60 day unconditional money back guarantee and fully functional evaluation versions are available for download at www.devexpress.com.

Visual Components

To build stunning and flexible applications, you need feature complete components…Ones that work as expected, each and every time. Our complete range of visual components will help you emulate today’s most popular UIs without hassles or aggravation. Like all of our tools, our components were written in C# and fully optimized for the .NET Framework and all .NET languages.

IDE Productivity Tools

Today, software consumers demand more than ever before from developers. The pressure to deliver more features with higher quality in less time has never been greater. Developer Express created CodeRush and Refactor! for Visual Studio .NET to help developers and managers meet these increased demands for quality and functionality, by boosting productivity while eliminating the repetition that erodes precious creativity. (read more...)

Recognized as a leading consulting firm by Microsoft and Sun, SRT Solutions' experts stay at the forefront of both .NET and J2EE platform technologies. Backed by a select team with broad expertise in engineering, scientific and business applications, this seasoned, elite group excels at applying the latest technology to create robust solutions for your toughest software development challenges.

Working on-site throughout the development process, SRT Solutions' experts mentor your development team, expanding their capabilities and ensuring they are self-sufficient in the technologies and code at the project's conclusion. (read more...)

Apress is a publishing company devoted to meeting the needs of programmers and IT professionals. Apress' unique approach to computer book publishing grew out of conversations between Dan Appleman and Gary Cornell, Apress' founders, who believe that too many programming books are of such low quality that they are a complete waste of time. Computer professionals need quality books that are not just rehashes of documentation. (read more...)

The IBM Rational Software Development Platform offers the most complete set of offerings to build, integrate, modernize, extend, and deploy software and software-based systems. The IBM Rational Software Development Platform doesn't have to be an "all or nothing deal." Its comprehensive set of products, services, and processes lets you choose the right development and project management resources you need without having to deploy a complete solution up front. And, it supports a complete set of software development capabilities -- requirements and analysis, design and construction, software quality, software configuration management, process and project management, and deployment management -- ensuring you'll be able to find what you need regardless of the stage of your project.

The IBM Rational Software Development Platform gives you a common software development experience, spanning all the steps in a project, from inception through deployment. The result is a technology environment that maximizes your organization's collective strength across your business, operations, and development teams. (read more...)

Cardinal Solutions Group, Inc. is a full service Information Technology consulting and training firm providing technology and business solutions to Fortune 500 companies in the banking, insurance, retail, and government sectors. Cardinal's core competencies are delivering quick-to-market projects, best of breed solutions, and enterprise level training. Cardinal maintains offices in Columbus and Cincinnati Ohio as well as Charlotte North Carolina.

Our technology expertise lies in Enterprise Java Solutions (Object Oriented, Web, JEE), Enterprise Microsoft Solutions (.NET framework, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server, SharePoint, and BizTalk), Data Solutions (Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, ETL, DBA), Electronic Document Management (FileNET, Adobe) and Project Services (Project Management, Business Analysis, Quality Assurance).(read more...)

ICC means IT services that help your business succeed. We create innovative and cost effective solutions by first understanding how you work. We bring in the right people to get the job done. And we customize the delivery method to fit your business.
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At Amazon, we strive to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. We’ve invested more than $2 billion in technology and content to date to solve some of the most complex technical challenges in distributed systems, operations, data mining, optimization, scalability, security and algorithms.(read more...)

Since 1999, Red Gate Software has been developing ingeniously simple tools that simplify the business of working with SQL Server and .NET. Our tools, which include SQL Compare, SQL Backup and ANTS Profiler, have become industry standards for developers and DBAs worldwide.

We count Microsoft, HP, Sage, Bank of America, AT&T and The US Treasury as customers, and over 500,000 IT professionals are currently using Red Gate products.(read more...)

Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: JAVA) provides network computing infrastructure solutions that include computer systems, software, storage, and services. Its core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor.

By investing in research and development Sun creates products and services that address the complex issues that customers face today, including increasing demands for network access, bandwidth and storage being driven by explosive growth in network participation and sharing. We innovate at all levels of the system and we partner with market leaders to provide value and choice for our customers.

Sun's network computing infrastructure solutions are used in a wide range of industries including technical/scientific, business, engineering, telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, retail, government, life sciences, media and entertainment, transportation, energy/utilities and healthcare.(read more...)

Founded in 1987, TechSmith is the world’s leading provider of screen capture and recording software for individual and professional use. People everywhere use our products to capture content from their screens in ways that help them communicate more clearly, create engaging presentations for diverse audiences, and analyze product usability and customer experience. (read more...)

JetBrains is a software development company that’s crazy-passionate about developer productivity. Want more intelligent development tools? Consider it done. How about more efficient development processes? We’ve got you covered. What about shorter development cycles? Uh huh, we do that too. Simply put, our tools simplify your challenging tasks and automate the easy ones.(read more...)

New Horizons Computer Learning Centers of Michigan, Chicago and Cleveland is the leading provider of learning solutions for Information Technology, PC Desktop Applications, Project Management and Business Skills training. We have nine state-of-the-art facilities located in Livonia (headquarters), Troy, East Lansing, Flint, Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, Michigan; Chicago Loop and Rosemont, Illinois; and Cleveland, Ohio. With more than 60 full-time instructors, hundreds of class offerings, and more than 65 classrooms, we are ideally positioned to meet our clients’ learning needs.

New Horizons Computer Learning Centers of Michigan, Chicago and Cleveland is part of New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Inc., the world’s largest independent training company. Using adult learning principles, New Horizons has been developing employees for companies for over 25 years. Every year we make a significant impact on our clients’ businesses by delivering over three million student days of classroom training and over one million hours of online training. New Horizons has the experience, knowledge, breadth of offerings, and resources necessary for delivering a variety of learning solutions. (read more...)

Businesses utilizing PHP know Zend as the place to go for PHP expertise and sound technology solutions. Zend's founders Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski are key contributors to PHP and the creators of the core PHP scripting engine, the Zend Engine. Because of their internationally recognized expertise, the company continues to provide important leadership for PHP and other open source communities, and plays a central role in the explosive growth of PHP.(read more...)

Wrox Press, established in 1992 to publish books for computer programmers, is driven by the Programmer to Programmer philosophy. Wrox books are written by programmers for programmers, and the Wrox brand means authoritative solutions to real-world programming problems. Wrox's unique author-editorial process delivers the best and most useful information you need in the timeliest manner.

Wrox.com is the official home on the Web for Wrox Press. Here, you can find information on current and upcoming Wrox titles, as well as errata and downloadable code for all Wrox titles found on this Web site. You can also purchase Wrox Press books via the site's online shopping cart.

The P2P Forum is a free discussion board that serves the entire programming community. P2P consists of discussion and e-mail lists ranging from ASP, Java, PHP, Perl, SQL and VB, to the latest .NET discussions. It was launched in November 1999, and it continues to provide an invaluable resource for the programming community, with about 2,000 new messages posted to the board every week.

Remember, Programmer to Programmer is not just our slogan; it's the way we write our books. Wrox Press is proudly part of the John Wiley & Sons stable of educational and reference books.(read more...)

ComponentOne is the premier provider of the widest range of tools and solutions for Microsoft® Windows, Web-based, and Mobile application developers, Help authors who write and develop Help systems, and support centers who utilize Web and email self-service solutions. Studio Enterprise is the world’s most complete component suite for developing all layers of Windows, Web and Mobile applications. With the most powerful components designed for the .NET framework, Studio Enterprise delivers exactly what developers need to produce next-generation UI’s for Windows and the Web. Our help authoring tool, Doc-To-Help, empowers authors to create HTML or Microsoft Word content and convert it to virtually every popular Help file format (including browser-based, platform independent Help) or printed documentation. New .NET tools for platforms like Silverlight and WPF can be found on our website. (read more...)

Zattoo is an Ann Arbor and Zurich-based startup bringing TV to the Internet. In a year and a half, we’ve grown to 1.5 million users in Europe by offering free, legal, live TV over the Internet, monetized through 5-second video ads shown only on channel switches. We currently offer nearly 100 of the world’s most popular channels to the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, and Belgium, en route to the rest of the world!

TechCrunch calls us the “best live P2P television platform available today.”

Red Herring ranks us in the top 100 privately-held companies in Europe.

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Telerik is the leading vendor of User Interface (UI) components for ASP.NET and Windows Forms, and .NET Reporting solutions. Building on our expertise in interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Check out the latest release featuring our RadControls for ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX controls, Silverlight tools, RadControls for WinForms, and Telerik Reporting:(read more...)