Passenger (mod_rails): community response, donations, InfoQ interview
Community response: one week after the release
It has been a little more than one week since the first public release of Passenger. In this one week, lots and lots of people have blogged about us, including even O’Reilly. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive! 
A few nice quotes from the community:
- “As many of you have already done, I hopped on board to see how it worked and was amazed on how easy it was to get up and going.” — O’Reilly
- “So far I’m happy to report that, as advertised, it’s dead easy to use… and the performance seems solid.” — zerosum.com
- “Mod_rails seems to be a surprising stable and finished product, and this for a first public release! I’m anxious to check out their Ruby Enterprise Edition.” — Handermann.be
Thanks for the praise, everybody.
“Enterprise licenses” (a.k.a. donations)
One may wonder why our “Enterprise”/Donation page was taken down so soon. It’s because people have been very, very generous with regard to donating to us. In fact, so generous that Paypal decided to block our account under the guise of “anti-money laundering investigation”. But everything has been cleared up now, so the donations page is once again online.
If you’d like to help us survive the coming winters, or just want to support Passenger’s development, then please consider getting an “enterprise” license. 
InfoQ interview
We’ve been interviewed by InfoQ. This interview elaborates some things about the name and the license. It also elaborates our upcoming memory optimizations for Passenger/Ruby, which allows them to use less memory. More information about this soon, honestly.
On a side note, we’re preparing the release of Passenger 1.0.2. It will soon be available.
Cardamon said,
April 24, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
Ha! I knew it! This entire project is nothing more than an evil operation to launder all the money you guys made when human trafficking all those illegal Asians into the country!