Those of you on my email list may know that I've been working to make CFWebstore fully compatible with Railo, and the latest version 6.30 release contained a number of tweaks and updates so that it works well on it, and I've also been passing on feedback to the guys that write Railo on things that could be adjusted on the server to make CF applications run with a minimal amount of changes. Now we have an even more exciting reason to be looking at Railo! It was announced at Scotch on the Rocks that Railo is going to be open sourced and they are actually partnering with JBoss.org, which gives it a whole new user community to attract and some additional possibilities for tags that can tap into the JBoss core functions. The open source license to be used is the LGPL which is more all-encompassing than the one used for Open Source Blue Dragon, and allows for better commercial use and also for code done for Railo to make its way into the other CFML engines as well.

They also have released Railo 3.0 which has some really exciting new features, including a lot of CF8 tags and functions, some exciting clustering capabilities, Amazon S3 resource, and new tags for doing multimedia (cfvideo, cfvideoplayer). Railo has really become a mature product and one that a lot of us are taking a really close look at. I've been particularly impressed with the excellent support the Railo team has provided while I've been working with their product and look forward to running even more sites on them in the future (perhaps even my own!)