Exhibit Hall
The exhibit hall at RailsConf will feature a variety of companies showcasing their goods and services.
- Friday, May 30
10:00AM - 10:45AM
12:30PM - 2:00PM
3:30PM - 4:30PM - Saturday, May 31
10:00AM - 10:45AM
12:30PM - 2:00PM
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Exhibitors
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a set of simple building block services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform "in the cloud" built upon the same technology that Amazon.com uses to run its global web properties. These pay-as-you-use services include Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, and Amazon FPS.
Atlantic Dominion Solutions
Atlantic Dominion Solutions specializes in using Ruby on Rails to build advanced and scalable applications for companies across the globe. ADS is a vanguard in enhancing Rails platforms with Amazon Web Services, and with ADS Mantis, provides 24x7 monitoring and management of Amazon EC2 deployed Rails apps.
beezwax
beezwax is a growing technology consultancy that strives to make software development healthy and sustainable through an open process, good communication and agile principles. Our clients include innovators in a wide range of industries, Fortune 500 corporations and even Burning Man. We love Ruby on Rails!
CodeGear
CodeGear, delivers innovative, high-productivity development tools for a wide spectrum of software developers ranging from individuals to enterprise teams.
CodeGear products include a brand new Ruby development product that will be highlighted at the conference, Delphi for PHP, Developer Studio (Delphi for Win32, Delphi for .NET, C++Builder and C#Builder), JBuilder, and InterBase. www.codegear.com
DemocracyLab
DemocracyLab is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the democratic process and producing collaborative solutions to public policy problems. When fully developed, DemocracyLab will be an interactive online think tank that uses participants' posts and votes to build a dynamic map of political thought. The result will be an engaging public forum where the best thinking rises to the top, creating a community-driven alternative to traditional politics.
E-xact
E-xact offers payment solutions for merchants to manage their transactions online with Realtime Payment Manager, RPM. Powered by Rails, RPM handles over 30 Million Transactions worth $3 Billion from 7000 users including Chase Paymentech - one of the largest acquirers in the world. With offices in Vancouver and Beijing E-xact is using Ruby on Rails to power payments everywhere.
Engine Yard
At Engine Yard, we focus on Rails application deployment and operations support, so you can focus on developing your app and your business.
Many customers start in the development phase and grow to hundreds of thousands of users, without hassles along the way.
Start with 1 slice on our cluster, then grow to 20 slices, then to dedicated clusters in our data center or yours - all without changing your code. Literally develop on your laptop, then deploy with ease.
Please stop by our booth and say 'hello'.
And we're always here for you, 24/7, by phone (866) 518-YARD and email info@engineyard.com
EnterpriseDB
EnterpriseDB Advanced Server is the first RDBMS that runs applications written for Oracle at up to 80% savings. Built on PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB delivers world-class data integrity, security, and performance. All products are supported by a global service and support team including the world's largest organization of PostgreSQL support resources.
FiveRuns
FiveRuns is building an ecosystem of tools around Rails, including its flagship monitoring and management tool, FiveRuns Manage, and a free Rails stack, FiveRuns Install. Built on Rails and delivered as a hosted service, FiveRuns products enable organizations to save money and reduce operational complexity by managing the entire Rails application lifecycle, from installation to production. For more information or to download a trial subscription, visit fiveruns.com.
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud platform just for Rails. Deploy an existing app or create a new one from scratch, both are just one step from your browser or the command line. Heroku handles everything, including code repos, collaboration, and elastic scaling. Never think about hosting or servers again.
Intridea
Intridea is a web application development company located in Washington, DC. Intridea uses Ruby on Rails and Agile methodologies to bring client projects to market faster than competitors. Intridea also has a range of products including SocialSpring, a white label social networking platform.
Morph Labs
Morph AppSpace subscriptions are the first Platform as a Service for RoR using industry standards and open source technologies. Highly available; scale on-demand and include infrastructure plus managed services. Pricing from $1/day and grows with the application needs. Try a FREE developer account at www.morphexchange.com
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying faint signals from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying faint signals from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
Powell's Books
Powell's Books has been an independent bookseller since 1971. Powell's serves the Portland, Oregon, area with four general bookstores and two specialty stores. Its flagship store takes up an entire city block, offering 68,000 sq. feet of used, new, rare, and out-of-print books. Online since 1994, Powells.com offers the combined inventory of its six retail locations and five warehouses - approximately four million books in all. The site features exclusive author interviews and essays, as well as a stable of internationally respected book reviewers and content partners. Forbes magazine crowned the site a Forbes Favorite, applauding its huge selection of new, used and rare books, all swathed in smart content.
RightScale
RightScale's automated cloud computing management system helps you create scalable web applications that run on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. Our advanced auto-scaling and load balancing features ensure your site's uptime and reliability. The RightScale Dashboard makes it easy to setup, launch, and monitor all of your EC2 and AWS activities.
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems Inc, a creator and industry leading advocate of emerging technologies, is revolutionizing and redefining system-wide management of rich, standards-compliant, Internet applications for the next generation Web. A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of state-of-the-art, power-efficient servers and storage systems to award-winning, open-source based software offerings. When it comes to Web 2.0 technologies, Sun provides best-of-breed solutions to enterprises and startups worldwide for developing, deploying, and managing the next wave of computing.
ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks is a global IT consultancy focused on software development and delivery. Using agile best practices the company helps CIOs maximize investment performance, reducing time and risk. ThoughtWorks' new product division, ThoughtWorks Studios, leverages deep experience by building world-class applications. The first product is Mingle, an Agile project management application.
Prospective Sponsors and Exhibitors
For exhibition and sponsorship information, contact Yvonne Romaine at yromaine@oreilly.com or download the RailsConf 2008 Sponsor/Exhibitor Prospectus (PDF).






