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Here is your chance to find out if yours is among the best. Thank you for your entries. The contest is now closed to new entries. We will announce the winners at the LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit in New York City. Successful information projects don't come out of a box or straight from a vendor's web site. Successful projects come from people who understand and identify with a company's business goals, and use freedom-enabled technology to achieve them. That's you, and we want to give you the recognition you deserve. Today, Linux and open source are driving a renaissance in IT. Instead of waiting for the same locked-down road map that everyone else has, forward-thinking IT professionals are building successful business projects that draw on the powerful network of the open source software community. Thanks to open source, companies of all sizes can reinvent themselves to be faster, better, and more efficient. Whether you're a small IT operation or the heart of a huge enterprise, we want to hear from you. Please let us know about the Linux project that is making your company or organization work better, and you'll be eligible to win an all-expenses-paid trip to LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit in New York City. Winners will be selected in each of five categories • Sales and CRM • Manufacturing and ERP • Training and CMS • Finance • Vertical or in-house application Each solution entered must use Linux along with an open source business application and one or more other open source software components, such as Apache, MySQL, Ruby, PHP, or Perl. All entries will be judged by an expert panel from LinuxWorld and the open source community. The last day to enter is October 10, 2006. Open to U.S. Residents only, 18 years of age or older. Not eligible to enter are employees and the immediate families of Network World, Inc. or any immediate family member of a Judge. This offer is void where prohibited by law. Judges
Larry Augustin Open Source Investor Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, OSDL, Pentaho, SugarCRM, VA Software (NASDAQ: LNUX), and XenSource. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide.

John Dix Editor-in-Chief Network World Dix oversees day-to-day operations and shapes the strategic direction of the leading newsweekly. In 1986, Dix helped launch Network World, which was a spin off from ComputerWorld, where he served as Senior Editor of Communications. Dix is a leading authority on new trends and technologies, the Internet, Web business, Telecommunications, wide-area networking and local area networking.

Don Marti Site Editor LinuxWorld.com Don is responsible for content of LinuxWorld.com and previously an editor at Linux Journal. He has also worked as a Web developer and a Webmaster, and serves on the LinuxWorld ExpoProgram Committee. Don is a past president of the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group.

JP Rangaswami Head of Alternative Market Models Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein JP is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. A champion of Linux and JBoss in the financial industry, he leads an IT organization that took the in-house project openadaptor, an infrastructure for expediting the connection of dis- parate business systems, and, in cooperation with CollabNet, turned it into an open source project and platform. He received the CIO Of The Year award from Waters Magazine, and authors a blog, "Confused of Calcutta."

Ean Schuessler CTO Brainfood Media Systems Ean is a maintainer in the Debian Project and is active in Kaffe and other Free Software Java projects. He is a former president of Software in the Public Interest. Schuessler is also a long-time collaborator in the Disturbathon art happening project in Dallas, Texas with David Hanson, Erik Schuessler, Steve Aydt, Forrest Jackson and many others.

Brian Aker Director of Architecture MySQL AB Brian Aker currently works on the MySQL Database Engine and spends the rest of his time working on Apache, MySQL and Perl modules, which include mod_layout and the Apache streaming services module, mod_mp3. In the past, he has been involved with projects for the Army Engineer Corps, The Virtual Hospital, and Slashdot. He currently works for MySQL as Director of Architecture and lives in Seattle with his dog Rosalynd.