Creating the training course is one thing, but getting our employees to learn and evaluate the course material at the same time makes for a fun weekend and relevant, up to date curriculum. Add the boatloads of free food and beers, and you have a serious geek out.

Object Partners has been huge advocates of Grails, as well as the GR8 conference held in Minneapolis every summer. We’re a platinum sponsor and typically have a number of employees involved and speaking at the event, as well as a large majority attending and lending a hand. Our very own Shaun Jurgemeyer created, manages, and runs the conference. We’re proud to be involved with such a great event run by one of our employees.

Terracotta is a software company and eponymous open source development project that delivers enterprise Java application scalability and availability. Terracotta also provides database scalability with Hibernate and high-performance distributed caching. This enables our customers to reduce their development efforts and ongoing operating costs.

Our community is home to some of the world’s experts in building infrastructure that simplifies development of highly reliable, highly scalable, high performance Java applications. Core development is sponsored by Terracotta, Inc., a private company with its headquarters in San Francisco, California.

The Terracotta open source project has support from many open source companies including Spring, Tomcat and Geronimo and many thousands of community members.

SpringSource builds Java infrastructure software which eliminates the complexity of enterprise Java. SpringSource created Spring, the de facto standard platform to build, run, and manage enterprise Java applications. SpringSource also employs the leading committers for Apache Tomcat and is the leading Tomcat support provider.

The open source-based Spring Portfolio is a comprehensive enterprise application framework designed on long-standing themes of simplicity and power. With more than five million downloads to date, Spring has become an integral part of the enterprise applications infrastructure at organizations worldwide. SpringSource offers very comprehensive support, consulting and training services for these technologies. In addition, with its recent acquistion of G2one, SpringSource now offers global enterprise support offerings for developers and IT operations that utilize Groovy and Grails applications. Grails is an open source, advanced and innovative web application framework based on Groovy, and built on proven and high-performance open source solutions such as Spring. For more information visit www.springsource.com.