CFUnited 2007 Sponsors
Platinum
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information
For more than two decades, the company's award-winning technologies and software have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is clear to anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information.
Now that Adobe and Macromedia are one company, Adobe is better positioned than ever to push the boundaries of the digital universe. Under the new combined leadership from both Adobe and Macromedia, we're driving even greater innovation with powerful, compelling software solutions that meet the needs of customers and markets ranging from designers and filmmakers, to enterprises and governments, to developers and home users.
Adobe continues to be deeply committed to the ColdFusion product and the long-time, loyal ColdFusion community. Now part of the Adobe product family, a world of new opportunities open up for the future of ColdFusion.
Gold
TeraTech has been writing custom programs and tools for programmers since 1989. We currently program in Visual Basic, Access and ColdFusion. Our mission is to provide high-quality software development and tools in the area of ColdFusion, Database and Visual Basic programming. TeraTech is a leader in the ColdFusion development field and has organized twelve national conferences over the last five years.
New Atlanta is the maker of BlueDragon - a product family for natively deploying CFML web applications onto standard .NET and J2EE platforms - removing the need for a Macromedia ColdFusion(tm) server. BlueDragon turns your .NET or J2EE application server into a native platform CFML server. With BlueDragon, CFML is now the only cross-platform web scripting language that will allow you to deploy natively on .NET and J2EE.
New Atlanta's other products include ServletExec, a Java-based web application server that implements the Java Servlet and JSP standards; and JTurbo, a J2EE Certified JDBC driver for connecting to Microsoft SQL Server.
With over 12,000 corporate and individual customers in over 70 countries around the world, New Atlanta is a recognized leader - providing reliable and innovative server-side products since 1997
Founded in 1997, HostMySite.com has developed into the true leader in service-oriented hosting. Businesses all around the world trust HostMySite.com to deliver unrivaled expertise in ColdFusion, ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server 2000/2005 hosting, and to provide a safe haven for mission-critical websites and applications. In response to incredible word-of-month growth, HostMySite.com has recently opened a second carrier-class datacenter capable of hosting thousands of servers. Anyone requiring mission-critical hosting services should contact HostmySite.com 24x7x365 by visiting us on the Web at www.HostMySite.com.
Silver
CFDynamics is a leader in the ColdFusion community, with years of development under our belt and CFML Certified Developers on staff. We know the standards that hosting customers across the globe have come to expect in a host and have come to be known as a leader for providing reliable and powerful hosting.
Quality hosting and development services:
We strive to provide the most reliable and powerful hosting services. We balance all of our servers to provide ideal efficiency, reliability, and performance. We will not fill our servers with as many customers as possible.
Fair and reasonable pricing:
We continuously analyze our plans and pricing to ensure that our customers get superior services at the best price.
Superior customer service:
Our customers are very important to us and we will do ALL we can to provide the answers and support needed to keep your site running smoothly and efficiently.
Since 1993, PaperThin has helped organizations of all sizes worldwide to significantly reduce the time and expense involved in creating, updating and managing Web content. PaperThin's flagship product, CommonSpot(tm) Content Server, powers Internet, intranet and extranet sites for organizations such as AFL-CIO, Cornell University, Heritage Foundation, Mayo Clinic, National Park Service, The Gillette Company, and Turner Sports (PGA.com), among others.
CommonSpot is the leading ColdFusion-based Web publishing and content management solution. With extensive out-of-the-box features and a flexible, open architecture, CommonSpot is quick to implement and easy to customize and extend.
AboutWeb is an innovative technology solutions firm, established in 1998. AboutWeb offers services from three distinct divisions: Staff Augmentation, IT Project Solutions, and Training.
Whether it's completing a project, learning new skills, or staffing-up your own team, we can fulfill your technology needs. Successful technology firms in today's competitive Internet arena must consistently demonstrate the ability to deliver projects on time, in accordance with customer specifications, and within budget.
At AboutWeb, we have recruited the kind of staff that can do this time and again. Our team is highly motivated, technically proficient, and willing to go to great lengths to ensure the successful completion of every project.
Managed Dedicated & Managed Co-Location
Edgewebhosting.net is the #1 rated Managed Hosting Provider specializing in high capacity Managed Dedicated & Managed Co-Location hosting. Our team can design, build, host & manage your most complex and challenging environments centered around Cold Fusion, ASP, .NET, SQL and FLEX. Call us today at 1-866-EDGEWEB or visit our website and experience the Edgewebhosting.net difference.
Fig Leaf Software is an Adobe premier partner for design, development and training. Serving a broad range of clients from the public and private sectors, our Adobe certified instructors have helped hundreds of organizations become more effective through the application of web and database technologies.
We've trained more than 20,000 students in Adobe and Macromedia technologies and we've won countless awards including "Best Training Company". Fig Leaf's unprecedented success comes from our certified instructors bringing their enterprise experiences "from the trenches" into the classroom. Our commitment to customer success is also evidenced by our unequaled community support through seminars, user groups, and listservs.
Fig Leaf has implemented the largest ColdFusion and PaperThin CommonSpot websites ever produced. The Voice of America (www.voanews.com) contains over a half a million pages, segmented into 44 languages, with 2.4 million unique monthly visitors.
"We've Got You Covered" from the latest in Rich Internet Application development with Flex to custom implementations of Macromedia Breeze, web content management to portals, database integration, and usability analysis or best practices audits involving Dreamweaver, Contribute, Flash, ColdFusion, or Microsoft .NET, Fig Leaf's talented and award winning team of designers, developers and instructors welcome the opportunity to work with you on your next project.
GreatBizTools, LLC (GBT) developed the Presentation Evaluation Questionnaire for CFUnited 2007 and will be processing responses and analyzing feedback regarding conference presentations.
GBT is a consulting firm that specializes in designing, developing, and implementing human resource management systems. They offer practical, cost-effective business solutions through their management products, web-based testing system, and consulting services.
GBT has been providing management consultation and professional advice to their clients for over twenty years. They offer their website visitors and customers a FREE online service in the form of BizTools™. These special business tools provide information and guidance in a number of human resource management areas.
Using the Mach-II and ColdSpring frameworks to build their website, GreatBizTools supports the principles behind the open-source movement.
Hot Banana is an award-winning Web CMS that helps marketers build and manage SEO-friendly Web sites that can be automated and optimized for maximum lead generation and conversion performance. Hot Banana is available as a Software as a Service (SaaS), hosted offering or as a licensed software ColdFusion CMS, with everything an eMarketer needs, including Web site optimization and marketing automation tools. Specifically designed for small-to-midsize companies, Hot Banana has more than 200 clients worldwide.
Headquartered in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, with a U.S. office in Menlo Park, Calif., Hot Banana is a subsidiary of J.L. Halsey Corporation (OTCBB:JLHY), a leading provider of technology solutions for mid-size marketers. Halsey is also the parent company of Lyris Technologies, EmailLabs and ClickTracks.
Since the 90's, Intergral has been providing innovative products, software solutions and IT Services to hundreds of customers across the globe. Our product range covers essential development and support extensions to Adobe’s ColdFusion product line as well as Enterprise scale web solutions in the information management space.
In the ColdFusion community, we are best known for our Fusion products, which include FusionDebug, the first ColdFusion MX debugger for use with the Eclipse IDE and FusionReactor, the leading ColdFusion Development and Support Monitor.
FusionDebug is an essential tool for any professional ColdFusion developer. FusionDebug installs with a completely pre-configured IDE environment, including Eclipse 3.2 and CFEclipse 1.3. It enables developers to control the execution of their programs by setting breakpoints, stepping into tags and CFC's, examining and modifying variables dynamically, plus much more.
FusionReactor is the leading ColdFusion Monitor and is an essential tool for developers, support and system administrators. FusionReactor increases server stability, performance and adds powerful tools for supporting, debugging, monitoring and auditing ColdFusion MX based websites and applications. FusionReactor differentiates from other monitors by providing additional features such as unattended monitoring and server self healing to make sure your servers have high availability and maximum protection.
Straker Interactive are the exclusive developers of the ColdFusion based ShadoCMS and the Adobe Flex enabling software ZoomFlex.
ShadoCMS has built some of the world's most successful websites including the multi-Webby Award winning www.newzealand.com/travel and www.londonmet.ac.uk, voted best UK University website.
Built with Adobe ColdFusion, ShadoCMS is a world leading CMS for creating web sites in multiple languages with its unique parallel language engine and translation management system (for integration with 3rd party human translators). Using ShadoCMS clients can easily build sites in multiple languages and link them into the ShadoCMS search engine optimization and analytics applications ensuring the site is easy to update and ranks highly on search engines in all languages.
Straker have been working with Flex for 3 years and have built a powerful plugin for ShadoCMS called ZoomFlex which makes it easy to build next generation web applications utilizing the Adobe Flex technology, as well as providing best practice architecture for Flex rich internet application development.
Harnessing the power of ColdFusion and Flex, Straker Interactive continually strive to take their clients to the “next level” in web application development enabling them to create rich, interactive online experiences with the greatest of ease.
As a company, Universal Mind has been providing strategic web consulting based on the Adobe suite of products since 2002. Members of our team have been providing these services since the mid 1990s, and some have been in the industry for over 20 years. Many of our staff, including two of our principles, are former Allaire and Macromedia employees from the Worldwide Professional Services organization. Our consultants are deployed to clients worldwide, from Fortune 100 companies to government organizations to fledgling start-ups. We are highly proficient in troubleshooting, architecture and code planning and review, performance tuning, mentoring, training, and full development lifecycle. We are frequently called on by Adobe to service their largest and most strategic partners and customers when the stakes are high and success is critical.
Webapper Services, LLC, is dedicated to providing clients with expertise that maximizes the potential of the Web as a platform for business computing. Webapper provides a full spectrum of Web application solutions, both onsite and remotely, in the form of development, consulting and training services, and server monitoring and troubleshooting tools. Webappers flagship product SeeFusion™ allows customers to maximize investments in the ColdFusion platform.
SeeFusion is the first product of its kinda utility specifically designed for monitoring and troubleshooting ColdFusion applications and servers. Hundreds of customers around the world leverage SeeFusion in production environments to maximize server uptime, performance and stability. With SeeFusion and the rest of the "See" products, Webapper Services, LLC is a pioneer in the emerging field of application server analyticsallowing developers and administrators to "see" application server internals in ways that weren't previously possible.
Bronze
Adobe Press is a world leader in high-quality books for visual communicators and the official source of training materials for Adobe and Macromedia software. Best known for the best-selling Classroom in a Book series, Adobe Press publishes instructional and inspirational books at all learning levels. Adobe Press books are published, marketed, and distributed by Peachpit Press.
CFMX Exam Buster from Centrasoft.com is the ultimate testing tool specifically designed to help ColdFusion MX developers earn their certification through the Macromedia Certified Professional Program. The product has 875 questions designed to help you prepare for all aspects of the actual test. Check out the demo at centrasoft.com.
ColdFusion Developer's Journal, published monthly, is the only magazine aimed specifically at Webmasters and Web application developers using the fast-evolving comprehensive Internet platform, ColdFusion, offered by Macromedia, Inc. With the print magazine's Web counterpart, ColdFusionJournal.com, plus weekly and monthly e-mail newsletters, CFDJ continuously provides the ColdFusion community with the information they need in order to create the most useful Web applications.
Edgewood Solutions was founded in 2001 by a team of database administrators and engineers skilled at creating customized Microsoft SQL Server database solutions for any size business. As both SQL server DBA consultants and value added resellers (VARs), we offer efficiency-enhancing SQL server tools and applications.
We are experts at SQL database administration, performance issues and problem-solving. Combined with an understanding of business goals and effective project management, Edgewood delivers complete SQL server solutions.
You're using ColdFusion and you need to know the answer to a question. You need to talk to someone who knows more ColdFusion than you. You need it now. Where do you go? Since 1996 (and earlier) the answer has been to the House of Fusion. Whether it's the high volume ColdFusion Technical Talk list (CF-Talk), another one of our popular technical (or non-technical) mailing lists, or articles, House of Fusion has always been there to enhance the ColdFusion developer community.
In addition, there is the Fusion Authority, the ColdFusion technical journal whose print edition brings you up-to-date with all the latest ColdFusion information and techniques. The clear, well-written articles bring even the highest level concepts down to earth.
The bottom line is that House of Fusion and Fusion Authority have the information you need to be a ColdFusion professional.
Savvy Software is the developer of Savvy Content Manager - rapidly becoming the go to solution for web content management. Painless installation, ease of use and quick training times are its hallmark. Savvy CM is supported by many ColdFusion hosts, is low cost and incredibly easy for your end users. Easily extend the cms with your own code. Our partner program is growing quickly, and a great option for those in the web development field who don't wish to rebuild the wheel, but instead build upon it. Visit our website or call 866.870.6358
Since 2000, The Web Host Industry Review has made a name for itself as the foremost authority of the Web host industry providing reliable, insightful and comprehensive news, reviews and resources to the hosting community. The Web Host Industry Review Magazine and WHIRtv also offers a business-minded, issue-driven perspective of interest to executives and decision-makers at both large and small hosting companies as well as suppliers, resellers and web hosting consumers. The Magazine and online video broadcast offers the best in competitive intelligence and provides insight into the thinking and strategy of web host industry leaders and trendsetters.
Since 2001, Zion Software, has provided Instant Messaging and Presence (IM) solutions and IM software infrastructure to innovative companies worldwide. ColdFusion MX7 introduced Event Gateways and Zion introduced JBuddy-CF at CFUNITED '05 as the first commercial IM event gateway plugins for ColdFusion MX7. Come by of booth at CFUNITED '07 and see what's new!
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ThinkGeek.com is the top retailer for the techno-enthusiast market and sells everything from fun gadgetry and computer accessories to apparel, and it is the number one online destination for caffeinated products from soap to hot sauce. Founded in 1999 to meet the gadget needs of the Open Source community—the thousands of programmers, engineers, students and lovers of Open Source out there who were in the trenches as the Internet was forged—the website now draws a wide cross-section of visitors and appeals to the geek in everyone. ThinkGeek.com is the e-commerce division of OSTG, the leading network of technology sites.