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Wilmington, DE —3 March 2022— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today
welcomed VMware as its latest sponsor at the Platinum level.
"We are happy to welcome VMware as a Platinum Sponsor," said Bob Paulin, ASF
Vice President Fundraising. "Sponsoring the ASF provides essential funds and
services that enable us to support more than 300 Apache Projects and their
communities on a day-to-day basis. We are grateful for VMware's generosity as
it helps us further our mission of providing software for the public good."
"Some of the most important open source projects are ASF projects. VMware
customers build and deploy a wide range of products built using the Apache HTTP
Server, Tomcat, and Geode, among others," said Dawn Foster, Director of Open
Source Community Strategy at VMware. "We are delighted to support the ASF with
our sponsorship in addition to the contributions our team members have been
making to projects like Apache Geode. It is important to support neutral
foundations, like the ASF, that create a level playing field for open source
projects where we can all collaborate together as equals."
VMware joins the following organizations:
ASF Sponsors
- Platinum level --Amazon Web Services, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Microsoft,
Namebase, Pineapple Fund, Tencent Cloud, and Yahoo!;
- Gold level --Anonymous, Baidu, Bloomberg, Cloudera, Confluent, IBM, Indeed,
Union Investment, and Workday;
- Silver level --Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Capital One, Comcast, Didi
Chuxing, LINE Corporation, Red Hat, Replicated, Talend, and Target;
- Bronze level --Bestecasinobonussen.nl, Cafe24, Cerner, Crafter CMS, Curity,
Goread.io Followers, GridGain, HotWax Systems, LeoVegas Indian Online Casino,
Miro-Kredit AG, Paf, PureVPN, RX-M, RenaissanceRe, Sentry, Software Guru
DevRel, Technology Innovation Institute, The Blog Starter, Twitter, and Writers
Per Hour.
Targeted Sponsors
- Platinum level --Amazon Web Services, CloudBees, DLA Piper, Fastly, GitHub,
JetBrains, JFrog, Leaseweb, Microsoft, OSU Open Source Labs, Sonatype, and
Yahoo!;
- Gold level --Atlassian, Datadog, DinoSource, Docker, and PhoenixNAP;
- Silver level --Hotwax Systems, Instaclustr, Rackspace, Xiaomi;
- Bronze level --Education Networks of America, Friend of Apache Cordova,
Google, Hopsie, No-IP, PagerDuty, Peregrine Computer Consultants Corporation,
Sonic.net, SURFnet, and Virtru.
For more information on becoming a Sponsor of the ASF, please see
http://apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation is the world’s largest Open
Source foundation, stewarding 227M+ lines of code and providing more than $22B+
worth of software to the public at 100% no cost. The ASF’s all-volunteer
community grew from 21 original founders overseeing the Apache HTTP Server to
820+ individual Members and 200 Project Management Committees who successfully
lead 350+ Apache projects and initiatives in collaboration with 8,400+
Committers through the ASF’s meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way".
Apache software is integral to nearly every end user computing device, from
laptops to tablets to mobile devices across enterprises and mission-critical
applications. Apache projects power most of the Internet, manage exabytes of
data, execute teraflops of operations, and store billions of objects in
virtually every industry. The commercially-friendly and permissive Apache
License v2 is an Open Source industry standard, helping launch billion dollar
corporations and benefiting countless users worldwide. The ASF is a US
501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization funded by individual donations
and corporate sponsors that include Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Amazon Web
Services, Anonymous, Baidu, Bloomberg, Capital One, Cloudera, Comcast,
Confluent, Didi Chuxing, Facebook, Google, Huawei, IBM, Indeed, LINE
Corporation, Microsoft, Namebase, Pineapple Fund, Red Hat, Replicated, Talend,
Target, Tencent, Union Investment, VMware, Workday, and Yahoo!. For more
information, visit http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF
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