According to the SCEJ website home could be set to launch within a matter of weeks. This would then pave the way for the launch of the home open beta, which we are lead to believe is set for the 24th October 2008, though this date is currently only rumoured.

Thanks to the SCEJ website we have also aquired a list of  companies that have signed up as partners for Home, what would we do without good old Google Translate eh?.

IREM
Activision
Acquire
Atlus
Walt Disney Japan
SNK
EA
Capcom
Q Entertainment
Game Republic
Genki
Koei
Konami
Spike
Sega
D3 Publisher
Tecmo
Nippon Ichi Software
Hudson
Bandai Namco Games
Ubisoft

Link providing full translation thanks to Google Translate.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jp.playstation.com%2Finfo%2Frelease%2Fnr_20081009_ps3home.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ja&tl=en