Sponsors

Gloucester Research Gloucester Research produces quantitative investment research, software and IT systems for use in investment management.

They have provided the society with significant sponsorship and we look forward to a lasting, productive relationship.

Metaswitch Networks Develops, manufactures, markets and supports Class 5 Softswitch products for central office and regional switching center deployments.

Metaswitch sponsor the CompSoc Technology Competition.

Deloitte is the second largest professional services firm in the world, with 182,000 employees in more than 150 countries providing audit, tax, consulting, enterprise risk and financial advisory services.

Deloitte have provided the society with some financial assistance, and the society hopes to build a lasting relationship with them.

Jane Street Capital is a quantitative proprietary trading firm that operates around the clock and around the globe. Founded in 2000, Jane Street is over 280 committed people in New York, London, and Hong Kong.

Jane Street have provided the society with financial support which has enabled us to keep membership costs low and support social events as well as cover general running costs.

Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath which provides internet data analysis, defences against fraud and phishing, web application security testing, and automated penetration testing. In particular, Netcraft's anti-phishing services are very widely licensed, ultimately protecting hundreds of millions of people.

Netcraft have provided the society with significant financial sponsorship, which has helped us restart the society this year.

Until April 2007 Energis Squared provided a secondary DNS server, hosting outside .ox.ac.uk for stanley, and handled secondary MX.

Black Cat used to provide web hosting and domain names to small users. They sponsored our termcard on several occasions, provided secondary DNS for us, and used to provide our primary DNS server.

WDR became involved with the society in 1998. They attended a few talks as guests, presented their own talk on "Big Brother" and subsequently donated a substantial amount of equipment to the society. This donation included two Sun UltraSparcs, a Hewlett-Packard C110 and a range of SCSI disk and tape drives. Read the report on this event.

CI-Net, formerly Community Internet, is an Oxford based internet service provider which provides colocation outside of the University network for Stanley, and used to provide a secondary DNS server.

AMD donated a computer in Hilary 2002. Read the full report.

In Hilary 2007, they donated another computer, after the previous one lost its magic smoke.

In late 2002 IMM donated Compsoc a Compaq Proliant server and RAID array.

Mondus made a substantial cash donation of £500. This was used in the celebrations of Compsoc's twenty first anniversary in 2000 as well as to cover general running expenses.

Daffy, which was our main server for a long time, was donated by Progress Computer Systems in 1995.

In Hilary 2005 the Department of Astrophysics in Oxford donated a server to Compsoc.

In a clear-out of parts, the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics allowed a group of mad Compsoc members to pillage a room of old computer equipment. In the two car loads removed there are a lot of parts which might have got into use by our members if not the Society.