Charged Up about 3rdRail
This morning we sent out the press release announcing the commercial release of 3rdRail. Man does it feel good to have shipped this product and be able to talk about it publicly.
We started less than 9 months ago after a few of us started experimenting with Rails - and were totally knocked out with the productivity and simplicity. If you’re building web applications you really need to know about Rails. And if you’re building Rails apps you really need to be using 3rdRail — granted I’m less than impartial on this particular point.
I did a more in-depth video which shows off some of the core functionality in 3rdRail. This goes into a little more detail than the sneak peek that I showed earlier. We also set up an independent site for folks to congregate and talk about Ruby and RoR (and 3rdRail of course). Go to http://www.GrabTheRail.com.
Trial downloads are available here: http://cc.codegear.com/trial/3rdrail, and you can buy the product through the shop site for an introductory price of $299.
We’re doing something completely new (for CodeGear) with the licensing on 3rdRail. We are selling it as a subscription. The initial purchase price includes a perpetual license and a one year update subscription. We will be updating the product on a quarterly basis with new features and (of course) bug fixes. Our focus for Q4 is, first and foremost, to respond to input from customers. We have a few cool new features planned too. Watch for the official 3rdRail roadmap.
The subscription pricing keeps the purchase cost down and lets us update it with features more often. Personally, I’m really jazzed to be able to do this. In the past our model was to have a major release once a year with only critical bug fixes between releases. With 3rdRail we will be making the product better every 3 months based on your feedback.
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Posted by Joe McGlynn on September 17th, 2007 under 3rdRail, Ruby and Rails |3 Responses to “Charged Up about 3rdRail”
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September 17th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Congratulations to everyone at CodeGear.
September 17th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
What about extending Castle Project MonoRail Framework for .NET?
September 18th, 2007 at 4:50 am
This looks very interesting. It will also be interesting to see how this stacks up against NetBeans as it is the current leader of the pack.
Something very intriguing to me is if you could add Hobo (hobocentral.net) and DRYML support to 3rd Rail. I think that if you could do that that now with it still in its pre-1.0 development cycle then that would be quite telling as NetBeans has apparently already started that process. It is particularly important as Hobo is to Rails development as Rails is to general web development.