Engine Yard Announces JRuby Support

Opens up Rails Cloud and application deployment expertise to JRuby users
without requiring infrastructure changes

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- JAVAONE --Engine Yard, the leader in
Rails automation and deployment technologies, today announced that it is
adding JRuby to its suite of supported Ruby and Rails runtimes. Organizations
developing JRuby applications can now take advantage of Engine Yard Solo, the
first Rails Cloud to market, and Engine Yard hosting services, which include
the company's unique "You write it, we run it" commitment. With this
announcement, Engine Yard becomes the first production cloud to run real
applications on JRuby.

JRuby is the Ruby implementation of choice for companies with significant
investments in Java infrastructure. It allows for the incremental adoption of
the Ruby language by allowing easy integration with existing Java libraries.
Additionally, it allows Ruby and Rails applications to run easily on existing
Java application servers that have been selected as standards within an
organization.

"We're very excited about EngineYard supporting JRuby," said Charles Nutter,
co-lead of the JRuby project. "This will bring JRuby's performance and
scaling to EngineYard customers, and EngineYard's legendary Rails expertise to
JRuby users."

The Engine Yard decision to provide JRuby support stemmed from requests from
Java-based customers and partners that wanted to leverage existing libraries
and infrastructures but also deploy their applications to a Rails Cloud.

"JRuby enables us to leverage our expertise in Java and Ruby, to use the
strengths of both because we want scalability, security and integration," said
Joel Parker Henderson, senior software architect at WestEd, a national
nonprofit research and service agency. "Now, hosted applications can get the
benefits of Engine Yard's Rails expertise while integrating with Java
libraries and infrastructure."

"Our goal has always been to offer peace of mind when it comes to application
deployment and management," said Tom Mornini, CTO of Engine Yard. "By adding
support for JRuby, we are further opening up our cloud and making that
confidence accessible to the wide array of companies that have built
themselves around Java."

Engine Yard JRuby support will be released in beta in early July. For more
information, go to www.engineyard.com/jruby-cloud or visit Engine Yard at
booth #509 at JavaOne.

About Engine Yard

Engine Yard provides automation technologies and services for Ruby on Rails.
These include the leading Rails hosting services and the first Rails Cloud
service to market. Engine Yard employs numerous top industry experts and
sponsors or contributes to many Open Source projects and efforts such as Ruby
on Rails (www.rubyonrails.org), Passenger and Rubinius (www.rubini.us).
Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., Engine Yard is backed by Benchmark
Capital, New Enterprise Associates, and Amazon.com. Visit www.engineyard.com.

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