[jnoller]

It's not odd; sponsors pick what level they feel they can commit to in terms of marketing support (booth space, banners, etc) and how much internal support they have for the conference or the community (in this case, Python and PyCon).

Microsoft has been an amazing PyCon sponsor for years, and they continue to support the PSF both financially, and by supplying Python core developers with free, unlimited MSDN accounts to help with windows support.

So, don't take a sponsor level as a specific note about how much cash they do, or do not have - a lot goes into a company's choice about sponsorship.