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Gemalto is the merger of Axalto and Gemplus, world leaders providing digital identity security with pro forma 2005 annual revenues of $2.2 billion, operations in 120 countries and 11,000 employees including 1,500 R&D engineers. The company?s solutions make personal digital interactions secure and easy in a world where everything of value from money to identities to entertainment is represented as bits and bytes of information communicated over networks. In an increasingly connected society Gemalto will be the leader in making personal digital interactions secure and easy.

Business Objects is a global business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 43,000 customers - including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500 - and a network of more than 3,000 partners and resellers.Companies in every industry use our products and services to track, understand, and manage information. Our customers - from small businesses to top international corporations - benefit from the industry''s largest services and support team, a powerful research and development organization, and the efforts of more than 5,000 employees worldwide.

As the very first component vendor to release 100% managed C# components for the Microsoft .NET Framework, Developer Express is proud to fully support the Microsoft development community with advanced and feature-rich components and add-ins for Visual Studio. Our products have been engineered from the ground-up and fully optimized to take advantage of the capabilities built into the .NET Framework. All Developer Express components be it for Microsoft Windows® Forms or Web Forms deliver flexibility with incredible ease so you can hit the ground running and deliver business solutions that address your customers'' needs without hassles or aggravation.

Dexterra, Inc. provides the most responsive, secure and complete Enterprise Mobile Platform available in the global market today. With customers spanning the globe, across 21 different industries, Dexterra helps these businesses gain a competitive advantage by assembling industry specific applications that target their precise business needs quickly, efficiently and economically. Dexterra delivers these capabilities across the widest cross-section of wireless devices and enterprise back office systems, all in one cohesive solution. Dexterra has offices in Seattle, Toronto, London, Dubai and Melbourne.

Infragistics has been the market leader in the presentation layer components industry for over 18 years, and has matured into a multi-platform Enterprise Software products and services vendor with global reach in nearly every Fortune 2000 company. Infragistics empowers developers to build great application UIs for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, JavaServer Faces and Windows Presentation Foundation platforms, and additionally offers test tools, support, training and consulting services.

Iron Speed makes software development tools for database application developers who need to build powerful, enterprise-class, Web applications in less time, and with fewer resources. The company''s flagship product, Iron Speed Designer, quickly creates about 80% of an application''s infrastructure programming, allowing developers to focus on the remaining 20% of the application logic that is unique. Iron Speed recognizes that developing Web applications is more complicated than traditional application development, and so provides software development tools for IT departments looking to take advantage of the flexibility and extensibility of Web-based applications.

Klocwork is the proven leader in automated source code analysis solutions that improve software security and software quality.

Klocwork''s products detect and prevent security vulnerabilities and software defects, and provide architectural visualization and modeling tools to provide dramatic improvements to company''s source code. Klocwork''s patented technology is deployed at over a dozen Fortune 500 accounts, known for having the most demanding software development environments in the world. Klocwork is a privately held company with offices in Burlington, Mass., and Ottawa, Canada.

Mindjet Corporation is the leading provider of productivity software for visualizing and managing information, allowing individuals and teams to more effectively think, plan, and collaborate. Used by the majority of Global 2000 companies, the Mindjet® MindManager® product line enables users to visually connect and synthesize ideas and information to improve decision making, shorten business planning processes, and harness the intellectual capital in their organizations.

Mindjet solutions enable customers to leverage their Microsoft investments and eliminate duplicated efforts by providing integration with popular Microsoft Office applications including Microsoft® Word, Microsoft PowerPoint®, Microsoft® Project, Microsoft Outlook®, Microsoft Excel®, and Microsoft Visio®.

For the past 30 years, National Instruments has been a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government, and academia approach measurement and automation.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,900 employees with direct operations in nearly 40 countries. In 2005, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries.

Ounce Labs? solutions enable organizations to identify, prioritize and eliminate business risk to the enterprise caused by software security vulnerabilities. Ounce analyzes application source code to provide the most complete and accurate analysis of application vulnerabilities and their relative priorities, enabling business users and IT professionals to optimize their resources on resolving the most critical issues. With Ounce Labs, organizations strengthen application security, protect confidential information and verify compliance with internal policies as well as industry regulations such as PCI, FISMA, and Sarbanes-Oxley, and best practices including the OWASP Top 10. Ounce Labs is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with regional offices throughout the U.S. For more information, please visit www.ouncelabs.com.

If you invest in applications, PreEmptive Solutions can add value to your portfolio. PreEmptive''s Dotfuscator Gold is a post build instrumentation platform providing application hardening (obfuscation), software watermarking, code compaction/linking, anti-tampering, protection and licensing (via Microsoft''s SLP Services). This result is an unprecedented alignment between development lifecycle and product management with business and operational requirements. A lite version of Dotfuscator has been distributed as a part of Visual Studio since 2003 ensuring blanket support for every version of .NET. With an install base of over 6+ million Visual Studio desktops and 3,000 commercial clients, it is no surprise that companies serious about application security, analytics and/or licensing choose PreEmptive Solutions.

From an initial pilot project to enterprise rollout, Rally helps companies successfully adopt and scale Agile software development practices. Rally''s family of Agile life cycle management products, which received the software industry''s top honor of back-to-back Jolt Product Excellence awards in 2006 and 2007, map an incremental road to Agile adoption. In addition, the company''s world-renowned coaching services help mentor teams to create internal Agile experts. Over 50 percent of the world''s leading software-driven companies currently use Rally, and Rally''s tools have supported its customers in more than 6,500 Agile releases. For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.

Ravenflow is revolutionizing hiow software requirements and business processes are developed and validated. Because requirements errors are the primary cause of project failures, and budget and schedule overruns, enterprises need to identify and correct requirements errors early. Ravenflow''s Requiremetns Authoring and Valdation automatically generates visual models from plain English text so you get immdeiate feedback on your use cases and can easily correct errors.

RAVEN (Requirements Authoring and Validation ENvironment) exports validated requirements directly into the VSTS 2005 work item database, along with Activity and Responsibility diagrams. The entire use case text is exported as a single work item with each step in the Activity diagram linked as a child requirement. SME validation is accomplished via a Web 2.0 interaction with RavenSpace, built on top of SharePoint.

Xoreax is a privately held company dedicated to providing high-quality solutions for the professional software community with a technological emphasis on Grid technology.

Our flagship product, IncrediBuild, utilizes patent-pending XGE (Xoreax Grid Engine) technology to accelerate software engineering tasks such as code builds, data builds, simulations, QA scripts and custom processes on the MS Windows platform.

Xoreax is actively working on future developments and partnerships to enhance its technological platform and grid-enable applications in various fields.