rPath®, whose unique technology creates virtual appliances and simplifies application distribution, has been selected to present on the topic of virtualization at SAP Virtualization Week and the Sales, Licensing, Alliances & Marketing for Executive and Managers of Software Companies (SLAM 2008) Conference.

rPath founder and CEO Billy Marshall will be speaking at the SLAM 2008 Conference. The conference will focus on successful business development models, sales strategies, licensing technologies, partnering, growth opportunities, and marketing issues facing software companies. Billy’s presentation, titled Virtualization and Virtual Appliances: The Opportunity for Application Vendors will take place on Thursday, April 3 at 4:30 pm at The Sheraton Gateway Hotel in San Francisco, California.

Additionally, rPath’s Vice President of Engineering, Brett Adam, has been selected as a speaker at the SAP Virtualization Week. Brett’s session is titled Why Business Objects Chose Virtual Appliances to Achieve a Faster Time to Value for Their Customers: Featuring the Crystal Reports(r) Server XI Virtual Appliance Experience. The presentation will demonstrate the Crystal Reports Server XI appliance experience – a pre-installed, pre-configured solution developed by Business Objects in partnership with rPath, RightScale and Citrix – which enables software providers to easily offer small and mid-sized organizations a way to test drive and deploy applications as hosted virtual appliances. SAP Virtualization Week is presented by the SAP Co-Innovation Lab and Brett’s presentation will take place on Wednesday, April 9, at 10:45 am, at the Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto, California.