Online Demo of FiveRuns

FiveRuns is releasing an online demo of its management software early next week.  We have been working hard and long over the last couple of months. 

The FiveRuns product uses Ruby and Ruby on Rails for all the server stuff,  Gruff for graph generation (with a custom theme), and obviously Rico (early bits of next release) and Prototype.  I have also added lots of interesting new behaviors into the FiveRuns product that will find their way into Rico 2.0 in the coming months.  Some of those new behaviors will not be in the initial online demo at FiveRun, but will be part of the product before release.

It has been lots of fun working with great people at FiveRuns as well working with Scott Boms from Wishingline.

Everyone has done an excellent job and I look forward to the rest of the year.

Update: For now, the demo is made available only to a few of the people who are signed up for the beta.  We are still making some refinements and things are apt to change.  Keep an eye on the FiveRuns site, you will be seeing more soon.

Comments

[James Governor]

have you seen this write up?
http://www.redmonk.com/cote/archives/2006/06/fiveruns_has_mo.html

[Cote']

When can we expect those demo account to open up? I signed up for a beta sometime ago. I am, of course, excited to check it out, so hence my pestering ;)

[rcowin]

Thanks for the reference - it is a nice article. I will say that much of the speculations in the article about the product are amazingly on target.

We are slowly granting access to new users that are signed up for the beta. Since we are still changing things a bit, the first phase of users were chosen so that we could maintain a certain element of stealth just a bit longer. The feedback so far has been very encouraging. I am quite certain that you will get access very soon.

btw, FiveRuns will also have a booth at the JBoss conference and will be doing demos there. A few of us will be around the Rails conference as well (FiveRuns is sponsoring a few events there) - so, if anyone sees me there, ask me for a demo.