> Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> > I haven't met anyone working for a large or reasonably-large company
> > who is thinking of mandating anything but Java. Python is generally
> > considered highly suspect and Ruby isn't on the radar at all. Ajax is seen

I guess Disney qualifies as a reasonably-large company.

I saw on the Python Success Stories site (or somewhere else, its a
while back), that Disney uses Python heavily. There are also a good
many other success stories of companies using Python, don't know how
many of those are big. Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland, and Astra-Zeneca
(a pharma company) are two others I remember being in that list. The
site was down just now when I checked, not sure if its down permanently
or temporarily - http://www.pythonology.org/success. Try the Google
cache.

Is there any such site for Ruby (a Ruby Success Stories site)? If not,
might be a good idea to start one. I'd be happy to try to find stories
to contribute, since I do a good amount of this sort of searching as
part of my work.

Anyway, it would be a good thing in general, IMO, for the Ruby
community, to have a Ruby Success Stories site. I think Ruby is a great
language and, while I'm sure there are a lot of people promoting it,
this additional way could help (if its not there already - I don't know
as of now). Increasing the visibility and credibility of Ruby to the
corporate world may be a good thing - it would encourage them to use it
more, implying potentially more jobs for Rubyists, whether as employees
or contractors/consultants.

Update: I tried the Google cache for "Python Success Stories".
According to it, these (large) companies use Python:

AstraZeneca
Philips
Honeywell
Industrial Light and Magic (company that created visual effects for
Star Wars)
The New York Stock Exchange
The Space Shuttle (I know, not a company, but big:)
US Navy
US Dept. of Agriculture
Boston.com


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