Aleri is a leading provider of enterprise-class complex event processing (CEP) technology for financial institutions and beyond. Aleri’s CEP Platform was designed from the ground up to provide the most robust architecture available for the rapid implementation of mission critical applications within the most demanding environments. Built for high throughput with minimal latency, Aleri’s event processing technology allows customers to analyze and respond instantly to high-volume, high-speed data to minimize risk and increase competitive advantage.

BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise and communications infrastructure software. BEA's Time and Event Driven Product Family is the industry's most comprehensive Event-Driven suite. Combining BEA WebLogic Event Server with BEA WebLogic Real Time creates key Event-Driven SOA capabilities and provides a rock-solid foundation for extreme transaction processing. Information about how BEA is enabling customers to achieve Event-Drive SOA can be found at www.bea.com.

Based in Mountain View, Calif., Coral8, Inc. is a leading provider of software for Complex Event Processing (CEP). Bringing together high-performance, an innovative SQL-based programming language and enterprise-class features, the
Coral8 Engine is the fastest, lowest cost way to build and deploy powerful new CEP applications. For more information, visit www.coral8.com or call (650) 210-3810.

Digipede Technologies is a leading software provider of grid computing solutions for the Microsoft .NET Framework. Digipede is led by a proven team of technology visionaries who have developed best-in-class Windows applications for more than 15 years. Digipede is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Headquartered in Oakland, California, Digipede is expanding rapidly. For more information visit www.digipede.net.

GigaSpaces provides a single infrastructure software platform for application scalability and performance. GigaSpaces’ unique approach enables developers to write their business logic as if writing to a single computer and then seamlessly scale out the application linearly anywhere and on demand. It is targeted at applications characterized by high-volume transaction and data processing and low transaction latency requirements and provides an alternative to Web Services for implementing high performance and scalable service-oriented architectures. GigaSpaces’ customers include leaders in the financial services, telecommunications sectors, and government institutions, including Société Générale, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Dow Jones, Virgin Mobile, Nortel and Hutchison 3G, where the need for mission-critical high-performance, low-latency, reliability and scalability necessitates an alternative to traditional approaches. GigaSpaces was founded in 2000 and has offices in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, and Israel. It is a privately held company, funded by FTVentures, BRM Capital, Intel Capital, and Formula Vision.

Microsoft creates software that helps electronic devices like computers, cars, and digital cameras work. Millions of people around the world use Microsoft technology every day, from multinational corporations that do business in many currencies and languages to small companies that count on just-in-time inventory systems to keep orders flowing. Educators and students use our software for lesson plans, homework, and collaborating on projects. In the home, families manage their personal finances, share photographs, and communicate online.

Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS) provides application infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications. Our goal is to maximize the benefits of information technology while minimizing its complexity and total cost of ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com or +1-781-280-4000.

ScaleOut Software’s products provide scalable, highly available, distributed caching for mission-critical applications running on server farms and compute grids. This technology speeds up applications by holding fast-changing or repeatedly accessed data in a distributed, memory-based cache instead of in a backend database. This new class of software-based storage, which complements existing storage tiers and database caching, can dramatically improve performance and high availability for a variety of applications found in the capital markets industry. Our flagship product, ScaleOut StateServer, is installed today at over 100 companies worldwide and is running on well over 1,000 servers. It has been production-proven in demanding enterprise environments. For more information visit www.scaleoutsoftware.com.

StreamBase Systems, Inc, the leader in high-performance Complex Event Processing (CEP), provides software for rapidly building systems that analyze and act on real-time streaming data for instantaneous decision-making. StreamBase’s Event Processing Platform™ combines a rapid application development environment, a low-latency high-throughput event server, and the broadest connectivity to real-time and historical data. Leading investment banks, government agencies, e-Businesses, and telecommunication network providers rely on StreamBase to power mission-critical applications that increase revenue, lower costs, and reduce risk. The company is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.streambase.com.

Wombat enables limitless connectivity to the global markets through the world's most advanced high speed market data infrastructure, the Wombat Market Data Platform™. With offices in the US, UK and Japan, Wombat software underpins automated market-making systems, electronic-trading floors and tick-capture platforms in financial institutions around the world. The Wombat Market Data Platform includes Wombat Feed Handlers™, providing sub-millisecond connectivity to more than 140+ direct exchange and aggregated vendor feeds; Wombat DART Entitlements™, providing market data compliance, analysis and reporting services; Wombat Middleware™, enabling high speed, multi-protocol messaging throughout the enterprise; and Wombat Trading Technology, offering analytical event processing for the capital markets. For more information, visit www.wombatfs.com.