MONTVALE, NJ -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/15/06 -- SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com) announced today that the SOA Web Services / Enterprise Open Source Conference will be sponsored by the world's leading SOA and Open Source companies, including Adobe, Backbase, CalAmp, Cassatt, Centric CRM, Chariot Solutions, Composite Software, Exadel, Metallect, Optaros, OSS Nokalva, Parasoft, Rogue Wave Software, SugarCRM, and Web Age Solutions http://www.soaeosconference.sys-con.com/general/sponsors.htm.

The Most Distinguished Conference Faculty of the Year

This year's conference will feature a distinguished faculty, whose members are the world's top celebrity experts in their fields, presenting six simultaneous tracks and power panels in three distinct themes: SOA Web Services, Enterprise Open Source, and Real-World AJAX. http://www.soaeosconference.sys-con.com.

The conference faculty includes Andy Astor, co-founder and CEO of EnterpriseDB; Jeff Barr, SOA Program Manager at Amazon.com; Kevin Bedell, one of the founding editors of Enterprise Open Source Magazine; Brian Behlendorf, founder of Collabnet; Steve Benfield, CTO of Agentis Software; David Boloker, distinguished engineer and chief technical officer for Emerging Internet Technologies of IBM; Dave Chappell, SOA expert and chief technology evangelist of Sonic Software; Si Chen, founder of Open Source Strategies; Christophe Coenraets, AJAX-Flex Integration guru at Adobe; Bill Coleman, founder of and CEO of Cassatt; Shaun Connolly, product management vice president at JBoss; James Crawford, optimization and heuristic analysis expert; Douglas Crockford, founder and CTO of State Software; Max Dolgicer, internationally recognized expert and managing director of International Systems Group; Christian Donner, senior technical architect at Molecular; Jean-Jacques Dubray, NetWeaver architect of SAP; Yakov Fain, editor of Java Developer's Journal and the co-author of the upcoming book "Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters"; John Fallows, author and AJAX evangelist at Oracle; Alistair Farquharson, CTO of Digital Evolution; Marc Fleury, founder of JBoss; Dan Foody, CTO of Actional; Rob Gonda, Deputy Editor of AJAXWorld Magazine and CTO of iChameleon; Zak Greant, leading Free Software and Open Source evangelist; Kevin Hakman, co-founder of TIBCO's General Interface; Dion Hinchcliffe, editor of Web 2.0 Journal and the upcoming book "Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters"; Guy Hoffman, a leading strategist for emerging markets; Simon Horwith, editor of ColdFusion Developer's Journal; Cory Isaacson, president of Rogue Wave Software; Jonas Jacobi, author and Java evangelist at Oracle; Ajit Jaokar, author and leading Web 2.0 evangelist; Werner Keil, well-known software architect of Java and Microsoft technologies; Jon Kern, outspoken software engineering evangelist; Mike Kochanik, vice president of CollabNet; Eugene Kuznetsov, leading SOA and XML pioneer; Jason Levitt, technical evangelist at Yahoo! Developer Network; Joe Lichtenberg, vice president of Bowstreet; Morgan Lim, co-founder of open source company RaptorHead; David S. Linthicum, a well-known author and SOA expert; Paul Lipton, well-known SOA evangelist and senior architect at CA; James McGovern, an industry thought leader in SOA; Boris Minkin, vice president of a major financial corporation; Aaron Mulder, CTO of Chariot Solutions; Eric Newcomer, CTO of Iona Technologies; Duane Nickull, chair of OASIS SOA RM Technical Committee; Clint Oram, co-founder of SugarCRM and general manager of Sugar Online; Adam Peller, advisory software engineer with IBM; Jim Phalen, Flash and rich client expert and vice president of Stream57; Victor Rasputnis, well-known speaker and expert on SOA technologies; David Richards, founder and CEO of Centric CRM; Clark D. Richey Jr., a principal consultant with the RABA Technologies RiSC group; Ajit Sagar, a principal architect with Infosys Technologies and founding editor of XML Journal; Anil Saldhana, chair of Apache Scout Project and top trainer at JBoss; Dylan Schiemann, founding software engineer for Renkoo and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit; James Schweitzer, open source specialist at IBM; Alan Shimel, a member of Open Source Snort Rules Consortium board of directors; Bruce Snyder, a founding member of Apache Geronimo and SOA expert; Joel Spolsky, well-known blogger and writer, and the author of "Joel on Software" weblog; Anatole Tartakovsky, CTO of Computer Technology, Inc. and AJAX / Flex expert; Jacob Taylor, CTO and co-founder, SugarCRM; Eero Teerikorpi, CEO of Emic Networks; Dan Theurer, technical evangelist at the Yahoo! Developer Network; Jason Van Zyl, chair of Apache Maven PMC; Shaun Walker, ASP.NET expert and the founder and president of Perpetual Motion Interactive Systems; Tony Wasserman, executive director of the Center for Open Source Investigation and a professor at Carnegie Mellon West; Coach Wei, founder and CTO of Nexaweb; Michael Wheaton, a senior principal engineer and SOA expert at Sun Microsystems; Chip Wilson, CTO of Geniant; Peter Yared, founder and CEO of ActiveGrid; Michael Juntao Yuan, SOA and Java expert at JBoss, Inc.

The conference on-site delegate registrations are limited to 500 attendees. In addition to the live audience, more than 20,000 simulcast viewers are expected to tune into the keynotes and general sessions live on SYS-CON.TV www.SYS-CON.TV.

Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities

SOA Web Services Conference, co-located with the Enterprise Open Source Conference, will be sponsored by a total of eight leading SOA and Enterprise Open Source technology vendors. The conference will offer exhibit opportunities to other vendors in addition to main event sponsors. Additional information on sponsorship and exhibit opportunities can be obtained by email at events(at)sys-con.com or by phone at 201 802-3021.

About SYS-CON Media

SYS-CON Media, listed in Inc 500 three years in a row as the fastest-growing, privately held publishing company in America, is the world's leading publisher exclusively serving i-technology markets.

SYS-CON's well-known and highly respected magazines web portals include: AJAXWorld Magazine (www.ajax.sys-con.com); Java Developer's Journal (www.JavaDevelopersJournal.com); .NET Developer's Journal (www.DotNETDevelopersJournal.com); Enterprise Open Source Magazine (www.opensource.sys-con.com); Linux.SYS-CON.com (www.linux.sys-con.com); SOA Web Services Journal (www.WSJ2.com); Wireless Business & Technology (www.WBT2.com); XML-Journal (www.XML-Journal.com); WebLogic Developer's Journal (www.WeblogicDevelopersJournal.com); WebSphere Journal (www.WebSphereJournal.com); Web Developer's & Designer's Journal (www.webddj.sys-con.com); ColdFusion Developer's Journal (www.ColdFusionJournal.com); PowerBuilder Developer's Journal (www.PowerBuilderJournal.com); IT Solutions Guide (www.itsolutions.sys-con.com); Information Storage & Security Journal (www.issjournal.com), Eclipse Developer's Journal (www.eclipsedevelopersjournal.com); Symbian Developer's Journal (www.symbian.sys-con.com); Web Hosting Journal (www.webhosting.sys-con.com); and Web 2.0 Journal (www.web2.sys-con.com).

Each month SYS-CON Media reaches over two million i-technology professionals through its specialty journals, magazines, conferences, education programs (www.education.sys-con.com), SYS-CON.TV (www.SYS-CON.TV), the world's first branded blog community (www.blog-n-play.com), live and on-demand Webcasts (www.webcast.sys-con.com), and the SYS-CON interactive portal with more than 100 websites at www.sys-con.com.

About SYS-CON Events, Inc.

SYS-CON Events, Inc. (www.events.sys-con.com) is the world's leading producer of i-technology conferences, seminars and expos, including SOA Web Services Edge - International SOA Web Services Conference, Enterprise Open Source Conference, "Real-World AJAX" Seminar Series (www.ajaxseminar.com), "Real-World Flex" Seminar Series (www.events.sys-con.com), iTVcon - Internet TV Conference & Expo 2006 (www.itvcon.com) and International AjaxWorld Conference & Expo (www.ajaxworldconference.com).

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Contact:
Jeremy Geelan (conference program)
SYS-CON Events, Inc.
Email Contact
201 802-3051

Carmen Gonzalez (sponsorship and exhibit opportunities)
SYS-CON Events, Inc.
Email Contact
201 802-3021