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Newark, New Jersey - April 9, 2002 Recognizing the unique requirements and varied technical skills of the ColdFusion and JRun communities, OpenDemand will leverage the experience and recognition of Systemanage in these communities to create new resources (presentations, white papers, benchmark studies) that will uniquely benefit Macromedia developers. Systemanage Founder and CTO Charlie Arehart is a recognized leader in those communities, as a frequent speaker to User Groups and conferences throughout the world. He's also a regular contributor to the ColdFusion Developer Journal and Java Developer Journal magazines, and a certified Macromedia Advanced Developer and Trainer. "The CF and JRun communities are composed of smart people, but they're also very busy. The productivity of those web application servers is such that people can create web applications very quickly. Sometimes, in the rush to get them into production, testing takes a back seat", said Arehart. "By partnering with OpenDemand, we hope to contribute substantially to the appreciation and more widespread use of load testing. Beyond the benefit for individual organizations, we hope also to contribute to the communities in general by way of published studies of the impact of various programming or configuration changes possible in the CF and JRun environments" added Arehart. OpenDemand delivers fully automated, browser based performance testing and management solutions that significantly reduce the time, cost and complexity that has been traditionally associated with load testing web sites and applications. This allows developers to easily integrate testing into their daily development efforts thereby identifying performance problems early on before they become too costly to resolve, and resulting in the production of better quality, more scalable code. "We are very excited about this partnership and view this as a strategic opportunity for both companies. Charlie will bring a wealth of expertise and an even more ColdFusion and JRun specific focus to our products, presentations and whitepapers, which have already been well-received by the Macromedia community," said Donald Doane, the Company's Founder and CEO. "By employing OpenDemand's state-of-the-art web performance testing and management solutions, Developers will benefit from quickly gaining insight into performance bottlenecks within their applications, and having the opportunity to address those issues early on before they cause loss of revenue or credibility with their users " continued Doane. Both Systemanage and OpenDemand executives are excited about the alliance, which is already bearing fruit. User groups from across the country have already begun to request a technical presentation on performance testing and tuning ColdFusion applications by Arehart. At Arehart's urging, OpenDemand now offers a free, 5 virtual user test trial with no time limitation for Macromedia developers. "That will definitely help people try out the service and see how easy and effective it is. And the planned enhancements for the next release will really impress people!", said Arehart. "Next we plan to arrange a benchmark service to demonstrate the effects of making various widely known (and some less obvious) changes in programming and system configuration alternatives. Making effective choices among those alternatives has seemed a black art to most, and with OpenLoad it's very easy to see what the impact will be of such changes," adds Arehart. "Of course, even better for individual organizations is that it's so easy for them to consider those choices and try them out in their own environment, using OpenLoad to measure the impact. That's what excites me most, bringing easy load testing and improved performance to all ColdFusion and JRun customers," he concludes. About OpenDemand Systems To take advantage of OpenDemand's FREE offer to test your Web site or application with up to 5 virtual users, visit http://www.opendemand.com/cf. To schedule a technical presentation on performance testing and tuning ColdFusion applications at your next CF User Group meeting or conference, contact Willie Williams, at 973.735.0547 ext. 2 or willie@opendemand.com. For more information on the company, products, and services, visit www.opendemand.com or contact OpenDemand at info@opendemand.com.
Charlie Arehart is founder/CTO of Systemanage. He's a Macromedia certified advanced developer and instructor with more than 5 years experience in ColdFusion and more than 20 years total in IT. He's been teaching or writing about these subjects for nearly as long and writes a monthly "Journeyman" column in the ColdFusion Developer's Journal and a bi-monthly column in the Java Developers Journal. He's been or is involved in several book projects and is also a regular speaker at developer conferences, seminars, and User Group meetings worldwide. He's also provides in-house training and short-term consulting. Systemanage is in Laurel, MD.
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