Gert Franz Coming to Boston

This coming Monday Gert Franz, CEO of Railo, will be presenting Railo to the Boston CFUG (for meeting details go here). As many of you already know, Railo announced that they were partnering with JBoss and going completely open-source (LGPL2). You can see the full announcement on Sacha’s Weblog. As part of this arrangement, Railo and the JBoss community will be working on integrating other JBoss services such as JBoss Cache, Hibernate and JBoss Messaging. Gert and Railo are also working with Adobe, for instance as part of the CMFL Advisory Committee and you can see Ben Forta's thoughts on the Railo announcment on his blog as well as Adam Lehman's take on his blog.

I think this is an exciting development for the ColdFusion community and could potentially help us expand the community by drawing Java developers to CFML for rapid web-based user-interfaces. It also gives CFML developers another open-source option with a less restrictive license, making it more palatable with larger organizations and allow it to be included in your distributions without changing your own license (or having to pay license fees).

The point is, if you live in or are visiting the Boston area on Monday, you should RSVP now!

Some highlights from the talk Gert gave to the Baltimore Area Adobe Users Group.

http://orangepips.instantspot.com/blog/2008/07/31/Railo-A-Lot-to-Like--the-US-Tour-08

I just recently listened to the CFConversations Podcast where Gert was interviewed and I've been playing with Railo on my dev box and I have to say I'm very excited about it as a VERY viable CFML alternative. It's also reassuring to hear that Gert sounds very committed to working closely with Adobe to make sure that CFML is standardized.
I'll be there, Brian!