Railo Technologies will be visiting us for our August 1st meeting.
They will be showcasing their CFML engine plus their big plans on
joining JBOSS.org. If you are close to Pomona, please drop by, this
will surely be an incredible night. We will also head out for dinner
and drinks after the presentation, so please come in around 7PM sharp.
Railo (
www.railo-technologies.com) is a CFML engine that runs on a
wide variety of Java servlet engines, and provides a cost-effective,
high performance alternative to using Adobe's ColdFusion engine. As
you may have heard, at the Scotch on the Rocks ColdFusion conference
in Scotland in June, Railo announced that they are partnering with
JBoss to convert their software to a completely free, open-source
offering.
Ben Forta (Adobe) had some very nice things to say about it on his
blog recently:
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/8/An-Open-Message-To-Gert-Franz-and-Railo.
Gert Franz, CEO of Railo and member of the recently founded CFML
advisory committee, will be visiting to present an overview of Railo,
and what the advantages of using Railo are for CFML developers. He’ll
also be talking about the upcoming open-source conversion of Railo,
and what that means for the community and the developers. Of course,
Gert will have some free versions of the Railo software to hand out,
and some other goodies as well.
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Gert Franz was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1998,
somewhere next to Zurich. He's one of the founders of Railo
Technologies GmbH and accompanied the development from when it started
back in 2001. Next to the development of Railo he worked as a system
architect, engineer and DBA where one of his favorite web projects was
for instance
www.zinodavidoff.com. He's addicted to problem solving,
performance and database tuning (especially SQL Server). Gert is a
father of three and boyfriend of one. He studied Physics in Munich
some (many :-)) years ago