From: Sascha Ebach <se@...>
Date: 2006-03-27T18:00:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Mongrel Web Server 0.3.12 -- Pre-Release

> SPONSORSHIP
> 
> Mongrel now has sponsorship from Eastmedia (http://www.eastmedia.com) in
> partnership with Verisign (http://www.verisign.com/) to make Mongrel fast
> and stable enough for enterprise class loads (meaning "gigantic", not "Java
> style").  Their sponsorship has made it possible to get large pools of test
> servers, payment to work on Mongrel, and a real application to use Mongrel
> on.  Everyone should toss out a thanks to them since this may mean I'll get
> to work on Mongrel full time in the near future and it will raise the
> quality of Ruby application hosting in general.  Not to mention the fact
> that they are letting all of my Mongrel work stay LGPL licensed and open
> source.  

Oh my, this is so cool. Big props to them. I am really excited to see what 
will come out of that. This should happen more often and I have a feeling 
it probably will (all thanks to Rails).

-Sascha Ebach