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Cake Solutions is a software delivery, consultancy and training company with expertise in agile open source development. Members of the Cake Solutions team are recognised experts in Java EE (with focus on lean enterprise applications), OSGi and Ruby on Rails. Cake Solutions deliver top quality bespoke software systems, technical training tuned to your exact requirements as well as high level technical consultancy and mentoring to your in-house development team. Most importantly, Cake Solutions actively supports open source software through this journal, the user groups and by allowing the key team members to spend time on open source projects. For further information please go to www.cakesolutions.net or call 0161 443 2355.

FDM Group is an international IT Services Provider with a unique business model, bringing people and technology together in the most effective way. FDM trains our own employed IT Consultants via the FDM Academy Programme, who progress to service clients in one of our five core offerings: Consultancy, Application Support, Testing, Infrastructure and Training.

FDM is renowned for delivering tangible benefits to over 200 prestigious clients in various sectors, through effective and innovative solutions tailored to meet specific needs. With a proven track record of success and impressive credentials, FDM has firmly established itself as an award-winning IT Services Provider.

Working across a nationwide network of offices, Hays offers employers and jobseekers a highly specialised IT recruitment service for permanent and contract positions across all business sectors, skill sets and levels of seniority. We have been at the forefront of IT recruitment for over 30 years, and now with over 5,000 IT contractors on assignment and thousands of candidates placed in permanent employment each year, we have fast become the pre-eminent specialist IT recruitment consultancy in the UK.

We believe that our clients should deal with subject matter experts when engaging with a supplier. Our Development Practice is structured to provide a direct route straight to the heart of the development community; through engaging with our specialists clients gain instant access to a network of candidates that rely on us to keep them informed of the best and most exciting new roles as they become available. For more information please contact our Andy Bristow at our Development Practice on 01473 631311 or visit www.hays.co.uk/it.

OpenCredo works with enterprise organisations to create innovative new solutions to address familiar tasks. Our methodologies remove risk and replace it with return on investment.

We understand your challenges, and have the senior consultants and methodologies to bring you the IT foundations and delivery to ensure your continuing success.

Allow us to join with your architecture and senior management teams to determine the most appropriate and effective philosophies to underpin your application development programme.

Skills Matter offers Europe’s largest selection of events on Open Source technologies and Agile Software Development. We are a company that is dedicated to supporting our community through the delivery of leading edge courses, organising affordable conferences on the latest advances and hosting free community events to discuss and exchange ideas with renown domain experts. All our courses and events are sourced from the technology creators themselves or leading industry experts, who are active contributors to the Open Source and Agile communities and are famous international speakers in their field. Their unrivalled expertise and hands-on development experience has proven invaluable to our community and to our customers. For more information about us please visit skillsmatter.com or twitter @skillsmatter.