IPW 2008 - Sponsors

Opera is the people! Opera Software is all about the brainpower behind the browsers we develop. Opera's cross-platform Web browser technology is renowned for its performance, standards compliance and small size, while giving users a faster, safer and more dynamic online experience. We have millions of users all over the world, including 45 million cumulative users of our free award-winning browser for mobile phones, Opera Mini. We work with international business partners, such as Google and Adobe for our desktop browser, Sony Ericsson and Motorola for our mobile browser, and many others.

More than 500 people are working for Opera Software. Our headquarters are located in Oslo, Norway, and we have 10 other offices worldwide. In a highly international working environment with colleagues of more than 45 different nationalities, the working language is naturally English. If you are passionate about the Web and want an international career that offers you the opportunity to work with the best, make Opera Software your next career choice

pair Networks, a global Web hosting and domain name registration company, headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, hosts over 190,000 Web sites for businesses, bloggers, artists, musicians, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations from around the world. pair Networks first went online in January 1996 and has experienced strong growth year after year.

pair Networks is well-managed, consistently profitable, and one of the world leaders in its industry. A long-term approach to decision-making and a continual reinvestment of pair Networks' profits assures that pair Networks will be here for many years to come.

ActiveState creates professional software development tools, programming language distributions, and business solutions for dynamic languages. ActiveState solves complex problems and produces cool and useful applications that help people live more productive and enjoyable lives.

Smart Open Software Srl (SOS) is a small software firm located in Rome, Italy. We are committed to building the best software products possible (mainly web-based), using solely open standards and technologies.

Our flagship product is an innovative web-based data-mining and DSS software, mainly targeted at the health-care and the banking sectors.

We have been in business since 2003.

Apress Inc., based in Berkeley, California, is the fastest-growing publisher of technical books in the world today. It is dedicated to meeting the needs of IT professionals, from novice to expert. Apress is devoted to publishing titles of the highest quality and has compiled a team of authors that is a "Who's Who" of the high-tech industry.

Università di Pisa and Computer Science Department for having allowed us the use of the rooms.

Italpro is a small software house located in Maniago, PN. Its core business is the development of web application, the configuration of Linux servers and the supply of high-quality hosting services.

Italpro has been developing web-related software since its foundation, in 1996.