Apr 1 2009

Getting into Railo: I liked it so much I bought (some of) the company

Posted by Mark Drew at 8:20 AM
21 comments
- Categories: railo | coldfusion

As I hope nearly everyone has heard by now, Railo finally went open source yesterday, you can check out the new Open Source Railo site at http://www.getrailo.org and as well that Railo Technologies has started up http://www.getrailo.com

But this post isn't about that. I have been involved with the guys at Railo for a long time and been very impressed with the work that they have been doing, so much so that I have decided to buy join them.

So, as from today I am the CEO of Railo Technologies UK.

Whoa! You might say, what does this mean? Well, I am hopefully bringing my experience with Open Source Software, development practices and technology to the team and I hope that in the next few months we will have a lot more exciting things to show you (such as Project "Romero").

Railo Technoliogies UK will be dealing with the consultancy, training and hosting solutions for Railo Open Source as well as extending the core project and validating extensions that will be distributed through the upcoming Extension Store.

Its a joy to finally let the proverbial cat out of the bag.

Over the next few weeks I shall be giving you all an insight into our expansion plans to build and increase our fantastic community of CFML developers.

EDIT: Since it has now passed midday, and the time for April Fool's is over, I thought I should clairfy that I am INDEED CEO of Railo Technologies UK and that I have become part of Railo, rather than buying it outright!

 

Comments

AJ Mercer

AJ Mercer wrote on 04/01/09 8:46 AM

Congratulation and best wishes Mark.

I wonder if there will be a Railo Technologies AU any time soon?
Ciqala Burt

Ciqala Burt wrote on 04/01/09 8:47 AM

celebratory pints on you tonight then? sweet!

congrats mate. wish you all the best in your new endeavour!
dave

dave wrote on 04/01/09 8:53 AM

april fools to you there buddy!
Toby Tremayne

Toby Tremayne wrote on 04/01/09 8:55 AM

Congrats Mark - exciting times!
Gary Gilbert

Gary Gilbert wrote on 04/01/09 9:14 AM

Wow Mark thats some pretty impressive stuff. You start your own company and then in less than a month expand the operations by buying Railo.

You need a lackey?
James

James wrote on 04/01/09 9:51 AM

Congrats Mark - this is great news!

Looks like you're the gatekeeper to two of my favourite pieces of software (CFEclipse & Railo). Now all you have to do is put together your own Linux distro and you're all set!
Todd Rafferty

Todd Rafferty wrote on 04/01/09 10:47 AM

*sighs* Everytime there's a good thing going, they sell out. Time to go check out OBD. So glad it's April 1st too.
Mark Drew

Mark Drew wrote on 04/01/09 12:25 PM

@Todd: They havent been bought out, that was my (slight) joke, I have in fact joined Railo as CEO of Railo UK

@dave: April Fool's is over now I believe, its still true :)
Ben Nadel

Ben Nadel wrote on 04/01/09 1:09 PM

Mark, sounds really cool man. Looking forward to hearing more.
Christian Ready

Christian Ready wrote on 04/01/09 1:45 PM

Great news, Mark! Can't wait to see what's coming down the road. I'm sure Gert and the gang are happy to have you on board!
Steve 'Cutter' Blades

Steve 'Cutter' Blades wrote on 04/01/09 2:05 PM

Outstanding Mark! Congratulations. I look forward to watching this project grow and flourish.
Mark Drew

Mark Drew wrote on 04/01/09 2:44 PM

Thanks guys!

I shall let you know how I am going on my current projects and if you have any new work you want to let me know about... you know where to get me :)
Luc Texier

Luc Texier wrote on 04/01/09 3:25 PM

Hello Mark,

Great to see the whole Railo story flying even higher now!

Congrats!

Luc Texier
Senior Technical Development Manager
JBoss, a division of RedHat
Brandon Moser

Brandon Moser wrote on 04/01/09 3:40 PM

Congrats Mark, I am definitely looking forward to Railo, your work and all that comes of it.
Raymond Camden

Raymond Camden wrote on 04/01/09 6:42 PM

Congrats Mark. Railo is a great product, you are a great guy, it is a match made in Heaven.
dave

dave wrote on 04/01/09 11:25 PM

sorry bout that.... figured it was an april fools!
congrats then!
Glad to see it going in such a good direction with good leadership.
jax

jax wrote on 04/03/09 7:04 PM

Railo is cool! Works like a charm. Damn hard to file a bug anywhere though. Jboss's Jira sucks big time when applying for an account (you need a *lot* of patience) , and the google group first needs to approve my request for membership.
Kinda makes me loose interest to report a bug this way.
Mark Drew

Mark Drew wrote on 04/03/09 9:48 PM

@Jax: We have to approve new users since there has been a lot of spam, and that is not nice is it? So trust me, I aprove people within a few minutes (unless I am sleeping) and there are other moderators for other timezones.

Jira is what has been used for bug tracking so far, so for the moment we shall stick with it, but I am looking at the whole situation with that.

Having run a number of public Trac SCM's, spam is the biggest pain that there is. So I apologise if you have been having issues.

You can always email me mark.drew @ getrailo dot com
Lorrie Tog

Lorrie Tog wrote on 04/07/09 3:29 PM

Wow.. Congrats!

I bet this hit Adam hard over at Adobe... once again - should've looked left!
Unibands

Unibands wrote on 05/20/09 3:18 PM

This sounds great!

I'm not too familiar with yourself and your blog, but anything progressing positively with Railo is a good thing I guess.

Good luck and all the best for the future.

Mikey.
Online education community

Online education community wrote on 01/19/10 5:18 AM

Here is how I do it, I add a contact form to my website from a nice service called http://wufoo.com/ and then I forget to mail them to myself.

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