| I'm Eamon Leonard, I work at Engine Yard. We have a long history of supporting and investing in Open Source projects, especially those that can benefit our customers and the different OSS communities we participate in. Like all companies, we have budgets for all sorts of activities, and sponsoring open source software is no exception. Also, like every other company, we review on an annual basis, where we allocate our budgets. The decision to stop financially supporting any project is down to our assessment of what we've been able to help that project to achieve, and if there are opportunities to invest in other projects that are at a different stage in development, or if it relates to a specific customer need. As has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the Engine Yard platform now supports Ruby, PHP and Node JS, and will soon be supporting Java, as well as a number of different databases. Engine Yard has always contributed to the communities that its customers come from, and adding platform support for these languages and databases means that we need to consider open source projects in those communities as beneficiaries of our financial support. |