Sponsors
We thank the following sponsors that made EDBT 2008 possible:
Platinum Sponsors
Business Objects is a global business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 43,000 customers - including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500 - and a network of more than 3,000 partners and resellers.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
Gold Sponsors
Google is widely recognized as the world’s best search engine because it is fast, accurate and easy to use. Through technology development and a continuing focus on innovation, the company works every day on its core mission: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Silver Sponsors
Founded in 1994, Yahoo! Inc. has become the world’s largest global online network of integrated services with more than 500 million users worldwide and a presence in more than 20 markets and regions around the globe.
Local Institutional Supporters
The Nantes urban community is the largest urban center in western France, with 24 communes and a population of 580,000.
Nantes is the chief town of one of the five administrative departments that make the Pays de la Loire region.
Academic Supporters
INRIA is the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Computing. Its staff includes 2700 scientists.
The student population of the University of Nantes is over 31,000, managed by more than 2,800 teachers. The University also hosts 70 research teams in various fields, including computer science.
The LINA laboratory in «Sciences and technologies of the software» is specialized on two axes: distributed software architectures and computerized decision-making systems.