I found this email recently and thought it was worth sharing.

This was created by Paul Colton in 2001.

1996 - Live Software releases LiveSite 1.0, a server-side scripting system written in C++ for Windows that is aimed squarely at ColdFusion

1997 - Live Software develops numerous Java applications as a consulting company, including one of the first 'Personal Java' apps running on WebTV and demoed at JavaOne

1997 - JRun was written in San Diego

1997 / July - Released by San Diego-based Live Software (company consisted of Paul Colton, Shannon Gillikin, and a single part-time employee) as a free product 1997 / Fall Included in O'Reilly's WebSite server for NT and StarNine's WebStar server for the MAC

1997 / Oct - JSP engine developed and demoed to O'Reilly 1998 / April - First commercial version (JRun Pro) released

1998 / Spring - Licensed by Cisco

1998 / JavaOne - First commercial JSP engine 1998 - Went "out-of-process" first (due to Macromedia Generator) and released pluggable API for JRun 'admin' tool (again for Macromedia)

1998 / Summer - Moved to Bay Area then got funded by David Poole, former founder of Spry

1998 / Dec - Began hiring employees for the first time, including Edwin Smith, Dan Smith, Tom Reilly, Clement Wong, and others 1998 / Dec - CFanywhere created

1999 / March - CFAnywhere announced with full-page ad in premier issue of 'Cold Fusion Developers Journal'

1999 / June - Live Software was a 10-person company when acquired by Allaire 2000 / Summer - Added Ejb 1.1 support in 3.0

2002 / May 12th - JRun 4 released