From: Zed Shaw Date: 2006-03-28T12:38:55+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] Mongrel Web Server 0.3.12 -- Pre-Release On 3/27/06 9:36 AM, "Reid Thompson" wrote: > Zed Shaw wrote: >> 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. >> >> Other companies benefiting from Ruby should take this as an example. I can >> think of quite a few things (Ruby 1.9 and a real virtual machine are just >> two) that need some serious commercial cash to get them in gear. If you're >> making money off Ruby consider hiring a developer part-time, full-time, or >> posting a bounty for something you and the community needs. There's no >> better time for enlightened self-interest than now. >> >> >> Zed A. Shaw >> http://www.zedshaw.com/ >> >> >> > Might be worth a post to provide a couple of addr's to which all who > wish to could send a 'Thanks' to to > > Eastmedia (http://www.eastmedia.com) in > partnership with Verisign (http://www.verisign.com/) > You can send thank-you e-mails to Matt Pelletier ( matt@eastmedia.com ) and flowers to the address on http://www.eastmedia.com/ :-) Zed A. Shaw http://www.zedshaw.com/ http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/