openSUSE Conference 2016

SUSE, a pioneer in open source software, provides reliable, interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that help enterprises increase agility, manage complexity, and reduce cost. More than 20 years of engineering excellence and exceptional service allow us to adapt and deliver the smarter innovation customers need to succeed—today and tomorrow.

The Open Source Business Alliance is a community consisting of institutions of public administration, small and medium enterprises and leading IT companies. The OSB Alliance gives the open source community in Germany a greater weight toward politics, public administration and economy and helps to improve public perception. The OSB Alliance operates in German-speaking countries and focuses on:

• interoperability • Open standards • Open-source software • heterogeneous solutions • Business Development • OpenStack • Open Cloud.

SaltStack develops systems management software used by the world’s largest businesses and Web-scale infrastructures for data center automation, hybrid cloud building and orchestration, server provisioning and application configuration management. We help cloud builders, data center operators and enterprise IT organizations automate the most-difficult and complex cloud management tasks with speed and flexibility required by the most-advanced computing environments.

Kolab is a highly scalable and secure collaboration platform that provides shared email, calendaring, notes, tasks, file cloud, tagging and much more. We ensure that you can use Kolab from the operating system and device of your choice, and that your privacy and security is in good hands as you do so.

Kolab is used by Fortune 50 companies and small start-ups alike, by Germany's BSI, large municipal governments, ISPs and ASPs, school systems ... and people just like you who host their own private instance of Kolab for themselves, friends and family.

Kolab does all of this with 100% Free and open source software. It is developed in the open by a global community, with Kolab Systems serving as the project's steward.

ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices.

The ARM comprehensive product offering includes 32-bit and 64-bit RISC microprocessors, graphics processors, enabling software, cell libraries, embedded memories, high-speed connectivity products, peripherals and development tools. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support and maintenance, and the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies.

At SoftIron, we make things that have applications for the world today by accelerating tomorrow’s technologies into the market. Our approach is unique because we innovate across the whole technology stack, engineering both software and hardware into a high performance solution.

It’s not easy to rethink core assumptions from the ground up. But we’ve put our heads together and over a period of years we’ve figured out how to deliver game-changing innovation in IT’s heartland: the enterprise.

Invis Server was founded in 2008 as an open-source project, which has set itself the target, especially to develop a server base for small and micro enterprises.

Our work is basically is to create a setup package, which can be based on a text-only openSUSE installation and suitable hardware easily set server appliances. The core of the package is the shell script SINE (Server Installation Now Easy).

Most companies spend their money on ad agencies, TV commercials, radio spots, and billboards to tell you how good their products are. At Monster we choose none of the above. Instead, we support the scene, our bands, our athletes and our fans.

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is the world's largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with more than 500 sparkling and still brands. Led by Coca-Cola, one of the world's most valuable and recognizable brands, our Company's portfolio features 20 billion-dollar brands including, Diet Coke, Fanta, Sprite, Coca-Cola Zero, vitaminwater, POWERADE, Minute Maid, Simply, Georgia, Dasani, FUZE TEA and Del Valle. Globally, we are the No. 1 provider of sparkling beverages, ready-to-drink coffees, and juices and juice drinks. Through the world's largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy our beverages at a rate of more than 1.9 billion servings a day. With an enduring commitment to building sustainable communities, our Company is focused on initiatives that reduce our environmental footprint, support active, healthy living, create a safe, inclusive work environment for our associates, and enhance the economic development of the communities where we operate. Together with our bottling partners, we rank among the world's top 10 private employers with more than 700,000 system associates.

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. With its proven performance, reliability and ease-of-use, MySQL has become the leading database choice for web-based applications, used by high profile web properties including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo! and many more.

Oracle drives MySQL innovation, delivering new capabilities to power next generation web, cloud, mobile and embedded applications.

The German Unix User Group, founded in 1984, is a non-profit organization for professional system and network administrators, security experts and system programmers which prefer to use a Unix operating system.

Unix, in our understanding, includes free systems like Linux, BSD and OpenSolaris variants as well as commercial Unix systems. Important to us are open and well defined interfaces and APIs, the compliance with internet and other open standards and last but not least: the chance to have a look deep into the system.

Since more than 20 years GUUG organizes national and international conferences, where core developers and other well known experts present cutting edge topics, attendees can get professional training in tutorials or exchange experiences and ideas with peers. We also have a member magazine (called UpTimes). In a couple of metropolitan areas there are local events (for free) with talks/presentations which is a good local opportunity to listen to new topics and talk to your peers.

Like in other countries around the globe there is a SAGE group (SAGE stands for System Administrators Guild) also in Germany which is a forum for the system administration community.

GNOME is led by the non-profit GNOME Foundation. Our board is democratically elected, and technical decisions are made by the engineers doing the work. We are supported by many organizations; employees from over a hundred companies have contributed since the project began.

teamix ist ein Systemhaus und Managed Service Provider mit Fokus auf IT-Infrastruktur. Aktuell sind wir ca. 80 Mitarbeiter und agieren deutschlandweit.

Jeder Mitarbeiter bei teamix zeichnet sich dadurch aus, dass er Experte in seinem Fachgebiet ist und immer ein bisschen mehr wissen möchte als andere.