RailsConf 2008 Sponsors
Diamond Sponsors
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
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.
Gold Sponsors
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.
GotThingsDone
GotThingsDone.com is a company focused on building Ruby on Rails applications on the web at low prices. Last year they released WhoDoes (http://whodo.es), a major hit in project collaboration and team coordination. Thousands of people use it around the world. This company shares its journey on the Internet through the team blog at RailsOnWave.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.
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.
Silver Sponsors
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.
Blue Box Group
Web 2.0 Businesses choose Blue Box Group to host their mission rails applications because of our commitment to the success their business. From development on our VPS platform, to full-scale rails deployments utilizing 1 to more than 12 servers, we have what it takes to grow with you. Our support division eats, sleeps and breaths with the success of your business in mind. Try us today to find out what cutting edge technology and award winning support can do for you.
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
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.
ELC Technologies
ELC Technologies helps enterprise intrapreneurs and venture-backed
entrepreneurs build the right application in half the time. Founded in 1991,
ELC has one of the largest, most experienced Ruby on Rails teams in the
world. ELC has employed its agile practices and robust code library to build
business-critical applications for enterprises such as Cisco, ESPN, and
Tribune.
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.
GemStone Systems
GemStone Systems provides simplified data management solutions that are scalable, robust and secure for highly available, mission critical applications. With its unique competency and technology, GemStone is recognized worldwide for its expertise in distributed object management, dynamic languages, high-performance caching, object persistence and scalable data distribution technologies.
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
New Relic
New Relic, Inc. offers RPM™, a subscription-based Rails Performance Management solution that enables developers to quickly and cost effectively detect, diagnose and fix application performance problems in real time. It's intuitive. It's granular. And, it's a 10-second Rails plug-in install. To see RPM in action, come meet us in booth 512 or visit www.newrelic.com.
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.
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).






