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Sky.com relaunches written in Grails

Posted by: Graeme Rocher on 2008-10-02 03:46:34.0
The main portal for Sky television has relaunched written in Grails. Sky, also known as British Sky Broadcasting or BSkyB, employs 11000 people worldwide and operates the largest satellite network in the UK.

The site receives a million+ hits per day and joins all the other subsites also written in Grails:
Congrats to the Sky team!

About Graeme Rocher

Graeme Rocher

As Head of Grails Development for SpringSource, Graeme Rocher is the project lead and co-founder of the Grails web application framework. He's a member of the JSR-241 Expert Group which standardizes the Groovy language. Graeme authored the Definitive Guide to Grails for Apress and is a frequent speaker at JavaOne, JavaPolis, NoFluffJustStuff, JAOO, the Sun TechDays and more. Graeme joined SpringSource in late 2008 upon the acquisition of G2One Inc. Before founding G2One, Graeme was the CTO of SkillsMatter, a skills transfer company specializing in open source technology and agile software development, where Graeme was in charge of the company's courseware development strategy and general technical direction.

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