Before I left for CFUnited, I put a call out for Case Studies for companies using Railo. I drafted up a list of questions. Since then, case studies have been slowly coming in. If you're using Railo and you don't mind answering some questions, please drop a line here and I'll contact you.

As of today Railo, your CFML engine of choice, is open source under the license LGPL V2. It is of course a BETA release still, but you have access to the source code. We are still working on several things and day by day there will be new pages added to the website. Below you will find a list of what has been done and what is due before the Final Release.
Done things:

• Open Sourcing Railo
  The source code is available. Along with the source code, we will release some guidelines on how to build Railo in a Eclipse environment. This is not done yet.
• Separate Railo into core and extensions
  Now Railo is very easy to extend. We have some Railo core extensions that allow you to upgrade your engine. In addition some applications have been converted into extensions as well.
• Extract the complete serial number management
  The Railo Open Source version will be the only version of Railo available. This is the core engine. You can of course buy some additions to it but basically there is no other version. Therefore the Railo Server Administrators will be not restricted at all.
• New websites
  This was very important for us. So we created three different new websites for your services. Since we are an open source company now we have to rely on the services we provide. Therefore we introduced the new website www.getrailo.com.
  In order to interact tightly with the community and to offer a platform for exchanging experiences between developers we created a community driven website which is reachable at www.getrailo.org.
  The third one, important of course as well is the documentation website. It's running on Transfer/ColdBox and Codex WIKI. It will contain most of the documentation and guides as well as user generated content.

There will be many things happening in the next 4 months so please stay tuned and help us create the best and fastest OS version available. Things that will follow this week:

• Blog entry about BlazeDS
• New features
• Updating documentation
• Installer guidelines

Professional Open Source
Community driven
Railo Documentation

Finally after 6 long years there is a CFML conference in Germany again. The basic schedule is like that of "A wee dram of Scotch in London" this year. 7 Speakers for one day. If you like to read more about the event, just go to the official (Railo powered :-) website.

I am very glad that we from Railo were able to bring two very famous CFML people to the CFCAMP. Luis Majano, author of Coldbox and Mark Drew, well known to all of you from CFEclipse and the Reactor framework where he is leading the development at the moment. We hope to see as many as possible in Munich next week.

Today on September 9th, after long testing and developing we finally released the long awaited and anticipated new version of Railo 3.0. We have done a lot of testing and bug fixing to be able to present you the best Railo version ever.

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Just a quick note on another large website that has been launched with Railo. www.computerwoche.de with around 5,000,000 page impressions per month has been redesigned and relaunched with Railo on May 1st this year. Next to the dramatic performance improvement, the servers now run very stable. If you want to have a look just go to Computerwoche Germany
The site is hosted on the servers that already serve the 100,000,000 pi's of www.pcwelt.de. It runs on Railo 2.0.0.045 and is based on RedHat Linux with a MSSQL 2005 serving as the database server.

Before Christmas, Railo took another leap forward when it comes to major websites and feasibility. One of Germany's major IT-websites (www.pcwelt.de) which is created by IDG Communications AG, has been relaunched with Railo 2.0. PCWelt records around 50,000,000 pi per month.

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The german digital imaging portal Chip Fotoworld has been redesigned and lifted from Coldfusion MX 7.0 to Railo 2.0 Professional.

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Before Railo 2.0.0.007 has been released, we tested several applications and frameworks for functionality.

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A new website has been launched with Railo Enterprise. http://organicfoodbar.com/.

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The Warner Music Group Germany launched a music site based on Railo and populated with the CMS makeit-online.

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