RailsConf 2009 Exhibitors

Blue Box Group
At Blue Box Group, we're in the business of providing solutions. We approach web hosting, virtual servers and dedicated servers differently. We know technology and scalable ruby on rails deployments. We have experience with both small deployments on virtual servers, to large 10+ server clusters taking 40 million hits a day. We have solutions to the rails hosting problems you'll experience as you grow.

Brightspark
Agilebuddy, a division of Brightspark, provides a robust Scrum project management tool blending usability, power, and flexibility designed to keep teams aligned, accelerate time-to-market, manage changing requirements and enhance product quality. Agilebuddy's advanced collaboration features and integration with Git, a popular Rails version control system, gives you transparency into the complete development lifecycle.

Engine Yard
Engine Yard focuses on Ruby on Rails application deployments and operations support, so you can focus on developing your application and business. Customers have started during development and grown to millions of users without stress along the way. Start with one slice, grow to 16 slices, then to a dedicated cluster in our data center or yours--all without changing your code. Engine Yard supports the Ruby community, by sponsoring the development of Rails, Merb, Rubinius, and other open source projects. We're here 24/7, by phone, at (866) 518-YARD or email, at info@engineyard.com.

Heroku
Heroku, the instant ruby platform. Deploy any ruby app instantly with nothing but Git. Take advantage of advanced features like HTTP caching, memcached, rack middleware, and instant scaling built in to every app. Never think about hosting or servers again.

JetBrains
JetBrains delivers intelligent software solutions that make developers more productive by simplifying the challenging tasks, automating the routine ones, and advancing the best development practices. We are the makers of IntelliJ IDEA for Java, ReSharper for .NET, and now RubyMine - an intelligent IDE for Ruby and Rails (www.jetbrains.com/ruby).

New Relic
New Relic, Inc. offers RPM™, a subscription-based Rails Performance Management solution that enables developers to quickly and cost effectively monitor, troubleshoot performance problems and continuously tune their Rails apps. See why more than 1600 leading Rails teams use New Relic every day. It's a 10-second Rails plug-in install. To see RPM in action, come meet us in booth 5 or visit www.newrelic.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.

Oracle Technology Network
Oracle Technology Network is the world's largest community of developers, DBAs/admins, and architects using Oracle products and industry-standard technologies. Millions of members collaborate via OTN every day to share real-world expertise and best practices about how to best design, build, deploy, manage, and optimize applications.

Pogo Linux, Inc.
Pogo Systems was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company is a hardware systems vendor that focuses on workstations, servers, and storage appliances for the general IT market. With support for a variety of Operating Systems that include Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac, Pogo Systems is the industry's most experienced source for reliable and customizable open-source hardware.

Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online, a joint venture between O'Reilly Media and Pearson Technology Group, is an on-demand digital library that provides one integrated source for over 7400 expert reference and learning materials from leading publishers such as O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley, Cisco Press, Apress, Manning and many more. Safari Books Online's training videos provide expert instruction on web design, software development and graphics tools and techniques. Visit us at www.safaribooksonline.com.

Scout
Scout is a dead-simple server monitoring solution powered by open-source plugins. Built by (and for) Rails developers, Scout shows what you need to care about and not the stuff you don't. Start monitoring your first server for free at http://scoutapp.com.

Sun Microsystems
A singular vision - "The Network Is The Computer" guides Sun Microsystems in the development of servers, storage, and open source 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.