CodeGear, delivers innovative, high-productivity development tools for a wide spectrum of software developers ranging from individuals to enterprise teams. CodeGear products include a brand new Ruby development product that will be highlighted at the conference, Delphi® for PHP, Developer Studio (Delphi® for Win32®, Delphi® for .NET, C++Builder® and C#Builder®), JBuilder®, and InterBase®. www.codegear.com

ELC Technologies is powering the hottest Ruby on Rails web applications. From NASCAR to TuneCore to Live Nation, we are helping to bring Ruby on Rails to great brands and start-ups. Our team has years of technical experience and more than 25 years of Rails experience. We’re Rails Studio Alumni, Scale with Rails Alumni, Advanced Rails Studio Alumni, Enterprise Rails Studio Alumni, and a RailsConf Sponsor in the US and Europe.We offer a top Ruby on Rails team, tuned in to the latest web technologies and aesthetics, with a broad palette of agile processes and practices to help your project succeed.

Engine Yard focuses on Rails deployment and operations, so you can focus on developing your application. Start with 1 slice during development and grow to a dedicated cluster with hundreds of thousands of users, without hassles along the way. We're always here for you, 24/7, by phone (866) 518-YARD and email info@engineyard.com

FiveRuns is a leading provider of enterprise-class management solutions for Ruby on Rails and other popular open source and commercial systems. Designed with you in mind, FiveRuns makes monitoring, analyzing, reporting and predicting the behavior of your Rails and other critical business applications painless.

While known for success in the Enterprise, IBM, plays a role in the success of open source innovation and business models. IBM is featuring the free DB2 Express-C, a production-ready data server which natively manages both XML and relational data ideal for powering your small and large scale Rails applications.

Since 1981, Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung is one of the leading sales channels for technical book publications in Germany. There are 35 subsidiaries in 22 cities that specialize in computer books and literature for medical und natural sciences. The stores are accompanied by the Lehmanns Online Bookshop that delivers at no cost within Germany.

Skills Matter, organizers of last year's RailsConf and provider of the UK's largest selection of training and events on Open Source Technologies and Agile Software development offers courses on the latest and cutting-edge Web 2.0 technologies. We hold Core as well as Advanced Whizz courses on Ruby on Rails, Routing and REST in Ruby on Rails, Ajax, Dojo, WATIR, and more. All of Skills Matter courses are authored by and taught by experts. This is training from the source!

Sun Microsystems Inc, a creator and industry leading advocate of emerging technologies, is revolutionizing and redefining system-wide management of rich, standards-compliant, Internet applications for the next generation Web. A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of state-of-the-art, power-efficient servers and storage systems to award-winning, open-source based software offerings. When it comes to Web 2.0 technologies, Sun provides best-of-breed solutions to enterprises and startups worldwide for developing, deploying, and managing the next wave of computing.

ThoughtWorks is a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end global software development and delivery. The company’s pioneering approach, which includes industry acclaimed agile best practices, helps CIOs maximize investment performance across their portfolio of complex, business critical applications, while reducing time and risk. ThoughtWorks' 800 professionals serve clients from offices in Australia, Canada, China, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. Recently, ThoughtWorks announced a new product development division. ThoughtWorks Studios will leverage the company’s development expertise by building world-class software applications. The first product to be launched is Mingle, and Agile project management application. www.studios.thoughtworks.com

Webpulser is a top grade partner for carrying your web 2.0. projects out. We provide you with personalized efficient interactive data-driven web applications by using the latest high-quality development tools that garantee progress and endurance to your websites, whatever your ambitions. Innovation is our motto. Contact us!