open source companies to watch... taken from a slashdot post

Cleversafe
Digium® - The Asterisk Telephony Company
Hyperic
Qlusters - Home
rPath - The Software Appliance Company - Makers of rBuilder and rPath Linux
Zenoss : Home : Open Source Network & Systems Monitoring

oh and September 30, Ohio LinuxFest 2006 - Columbus, Ohio
I plan on going! http://www.ohiolinux.org/attend.html
the link is as much a reminder for myself to sign up as it is available to any who read this to attend as well.