10gen the Premier Diamond Sponsor for OSCON Data 2011; CEO Dwight Merriman to Deliver 'Databases for Agile Development' Keynote Address

REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - Jul 11, 2011) - 10gen, the company that develops and supports the leading open source non-relational database MongoDB, today announced its participation as a Premier Diamond Sponsor at OSCON Data 2011 presented by O'Reilly, from July 25 - 27, 2011 in Portland, Oregon. OSCON Data is a first-of-its-kind event dedicated to open source data infrastructure. 10gen CEO, Dwight Merriman, will deliver the Keynote Speech on Databases for Agile Development at 9:05 a.m. PT on Tuesday, July 26.

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In addition to multiple 10gen executive speaking sessions, 10gen will host an "Install-a-thon" at corporate booth #201. Attendees are encouraged to stop by to install MongoDB and learn about the document-oriented database.

MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database choice for Fortune 500 enterprises and leading Web 2.0 companies, with downloads exceeding 100,000 per month. MongoDB combines scalability, performance and ease of use, with traditional relational database features such as dynamic queries and indexes.

EVENT DETAILS

Date: July 25 - 27, 2011
Location: Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR
Where: 10gen Corporate Booth #201
MongoDB Install-a-thon: Stop by the 10gen Booth #201 at any point during the conference to install MongoDB onto your laptop, and 10gen will enter you into a raffle to win a bunch of great prizes such as AppleTVs, Amazon gift cards, MongoDB books and swag. For more information, visit: http://blog.10gen.com/
Grand Prize: Win a trip to MongoSV (Silicon Valley) in December and lunch with 10gen CTO Eliot Horowitz.
Happy Hour: 10gen is sponsoring an after-party at Doug Fir on Tuesday, July 26^th from 6:30-9:30 p.m. PT.

For further details about OSCON Data 2011 presented by O'Reilly, please visit: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/content/data

About 10gen
10gen develops MongoDB, and offers production support, training, and consulting for the database. Thousands of leading Web 2.0 companies as well as major Fortune 500 enterprises have adopted MongoDB. 10gen is funded by Sequoia Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Union Square Ventures. For more information, visit www.10gen.com or www.mongodb.org.

About Dwight Merriman
Dwight is CEO and co-founder of 10gen, and one of the original authors of MongoDB. In 1995, Dwight co-founded DoubleClick and served as its CTO for ten years. Dwight was the architect of the DoubleClick ad serving infrastructure, DART, which serves tens of billions of ads per day. Dwight is co-founder, Chairman, and the original architect of Panther Express (now part of CDNetworks), a content distribution network (CDN) technology which serves hundreds of thousands of objects per second. Dwight is also a co-founder and investor in BusinessInsider.com and Gilt Groupe.