Last week, most of the Railo team were at the cf.Objective() conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is a great conference for us as we love showing the new things we have been working on to a live audience.
This year, we had the opportunity to show off some of the great new features of Railo 4.0 which we will be releasing a public beta in June. But this year was also special, we had a different announcement to make and this is what we are really excited about.
Railo Technologies, the company behind Railo Server is evolving. We have been working with a number of companies in Europe and the US to bring to you a new entity called "The Railo Company". This new version of Railo Technologies will be the next iteration of our plans to bring to you the best CFML Server platform, not just for the next few years but to guarantee the development of the Railo Server for the next 10 years and more.
The investors are a range of European companies that have been delivering CFML based solutions for many years and with their support and knowledge we can see a bright future ahead.
Some of the companies are well known to you, some not so much so, but our investors are:
- Tesi: http://www.gruppotesi.com/
- ActivBrowser: http://www.activbrowser.com/
- Prisma IT: http://www.prisma-it.com/
- TagNile: http://tagnile.fi/
- BlueRiver: http://www.blueriver.com/
Gert Franz, CEO of Railo Technologies said:
This is a watershed moment for Railo as we can now promise the continued quality and innovation that has marked Railo’s development to date and ensure the global market that Railo is here to stay.
I am very happy with the newly founded Railo company and the trust the investing companies around the world put into us. It will give us the unique opportunity to guarantee the existence of CFML for the next 10-15 years. Lots of companies have invested heavily into CFML, trained and educated their staff and released lots of software based on CFML.
This venture allows them to continue trusting what I truly think is the best development platform for the web.
What will change for you?
Nothing will change for most of our users, you will be getting the same Open Source engine, but now with added resources dedicated to adding features, fixing bugs and providing documentation. We will be announcing a number of incentives and licensing options over the next few months.
What is a major boon is the knowledge that you will have a stable company, with strong backers with no hinderance to the brand itself.
In essence what we are saying to all CFML developers is:
CFML is HERE TO STAY
We are MARKETING it
We are SUPPORTING it
We are DEVELOPING it
For the next 10 years and foreseeable future
You can view the full press release on the Railo Website
16 responses so far ↓
1 David Boyer // May 22, 2012 at 12:17 PM
2 Mark Drew // May 22, 2012 at 12:19 PM
3 Eduard Mitrea // May 22, 2012 at 12:33 PM
4 Sebastiaan Naafs - van Dijk // May 22, 2012 at 12:57 PM
5 Brad Newman // May 22, 2012 at 3:11 PM
6 Steven Erat // May 22, 2012 at 4:07 PM
7 Christian Ready // May 22, 2012 at 4:23 PM
8 Daryl Banttari // May 22, 2012 at 5:23 PM
9 Andrzej Michalski // May 22, 2012 at 6:40 PM
10 Neil Albrock // May 22, 2012 at 7:45 PM
11 Mark Drew // May 22, 2012 at 8:03 PM
12 Phillip Senn // May 22, 2012 at 9:02 PM
13 Jens Hoppe // May 22, 2012 at 11:17 PM
14 Gert // May 23, 2012 at 3:03 AM
On a side note, we will have somebody starting of July 1st which is completely and only taking care of documentation and nothing else. So things should be going forward pretty soon in those terms as well...
Gert
15 Mike @ Ouse Creative // May 24, 2012 at 6:30 PM
As expressed at CFObjective(); ‘The Railo Company’ is a boost for Railo and CFML as a whole, with passion, finance, commitment and long term strategy.
We look forward to greater Railo deployment & continuation of CFML community development.
16 Arleston // May 29, 2012 at 3:53 PM
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