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Offices: Walnut Creek, California
The CentOS Project is the name of the Organization that produces CentOS.
CentOS users as a group are a community of open source contributors and
users. Typical CentOS users are organizations and individuals that do not
need strong commercial support in order to achieve successful operation.
CentOS 2, 3, and 4 are built from publically available open source SRPMS
provided by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms
fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policies and aims to be 100%
binary compatible.
Offices: Washington, DC
CCIA has a mission to further their members' business interests by being
the leading industry advocate in promoting open, barrier-free competition
in the offering of computer and communications products and services worldwide.
CCIA is a nonprofit membership organization for companies and senior executives
from diverse sectors of the computer and communications industry. CCIA was
established nearly three decades ago to represent their members’ vital interests,
especially the need to promote competitive and fair open markets, open systems,
and open networks.
Offices: Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois
CompTIA has been dedicated to advancing the growth of the information technology
(IT) industry and those working within it. With more than 19,000 members
in 89 countries, CompTIA is the leading global IT trade association with
influence in all areas of the IT industry worldwide. CompTIA is committed
to fostering and growing the IT industry by promoting industry standards,
growing professional IT expertise, providing IT skills education and developing
relevant business solutions. In order to most efficiently serve the industry
and its members, CompTIA has developed specialized initiatives and programs
dedicated to major areas within the IT industry.-Distributed-
Offices: Arlington, Virginia
The DCIA is a voluntary, consensus organization with representation from
all substantially affected sectors of the nascent distributed computing
industry. This includes companies involved in providing the platforms for
storage, transmission, and exhibition of content, file-sharing networks
and operators, and digital media rights holders. DCIA participants are engaged
in the development and adoption of business and technical standards-and-practices
to advance the commercial development of this rapidly growing consumer-based
distribution system.-East Bay-
Offices: Brentwood, California
The East Bay IT Group is a leading technology forum. Connected to the best
and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, and start-ups in the San Francisco
East Bay, with strong ties to industry experts, major technology corporations,
and local municipalities, eBig is the East Bay's premier resource for information,
education, and personal networking for people seeking connections and technology
resources.
Offices: San Jose, California
The EDA Consortium represents 100 companies in the $4 billion Electronic
Design Automation (EDA) industry. Unlike other high tech industry categories,
the EDA industry has been extremely stable, and only experienced one year
of minor decline (4% in 2002), which was the first in its 18-year history.
In addition, their last industry tracking reports show that EDA industry
revenue was up 3% for 2003. EDA employs over 20,000 people and more than
500,000 people use its tools and services.
Offices: Arlington, Virginia
The Electronic Components, Assemblies & Materials Association represents
the electronics industry sector comprised of manufacturers and suppliers
of passive and active electronic components, component arrays and assemblies,
and commercial and industrial electronic equipment and supplies. ECA provides
companies with a dynamic link into a network of programs and activities
offering business and technical information; market research, trends and
analysis; access to industry and government leaders; technical and educational
training; and more.
Offices: Arlington, Virginia
The Electronic Industries Alliance is a national trade organization that
includes the full spectrum of US manufacturers. The Alliance is a partnership
of electronic and high-tech associations and companies whose mission is
promoting the market development and competitiveness of the US high-tech
industry through domestic and international policy efforts.-Fabless-
Offices: Dallas, Texas
The Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) is an industry organization
established in 1994 to achieve a more optimal balance between wafer supply
and demand. Today, their mission has expanded to be the global voice of
for fabless and hybrid semiconductor companies and their supply chain partners.
Their success can be measured in the dramatic evolution of the attitude
toward fabless—from criticized, to respected, to preferred.
Offices: San Francisco, California
The Free Standards Group is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated
to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and
promoting standards. Key Free Standards Group projects include the Linux
Standard Base (LSB), and OpenI18N, the internationalization initiative.
Supported by leaders in the IT industry as well as the open source development
community, the Free Standards Group fulfills a critical need to have common
behavioral specifications, tools and ABIs across Linux platforms.
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