On 3/31/07, Nasir Khan <rubylearner / gmail.com> wrote:
> I largely agree with Pat's comments.
>
> Most of the people I know who are writing code in Ruby (or Rails) fall in 6
> broad categories.
>
> 1. For fun "scratch the itch" projects. [I belong to this one]
> 2. Open source projects (Rubyforge/Sourceforge), again for fun or "in good
> spirit"
> 3. For profit, but mostly small consultancy work for small "Mom and Pop"
> enterprises.
> 4. Slightly bigger consultancy/contracting work but mostly under $20k
> variety.
> 5. Free software but paid support (again very small scales 2-5k support)
> 6. Marginal scripting work inside big companies. (underground/stealth Ruby
> activity)

fwiw, my company doesn't fall in any of those categories.  We're a
"real" company building "real" software, and our software is built
entirely on Python and Rails.  Revenues are definitely over $20k and
hopefully waaaaaaay more than that.

Pat