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On 3/31/07, Nasir Khan <rubylearner / gmail.com> wrote:
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> 1. For fun "scratch the itch" projects. [I belong to this one]


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6. Marginal scripting work inside big companies. (underground/stealth Ruby
> activity)



> - Is this the trend they have seen in their enviornments too?

No. ThoughtWorks is not a small consultancy, and we have several commercial
Ruby gigs sized 10 to 20 people. There is also this commercial product:
http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle-project-intelligence. It is written
in Ruby, too.

- Is a big sized company, like IBM selling "enterprise software" [think
> Websphere] written in Ruby for a license and a price tag, an anathema?


Something like WebSphere (huge clump of expensive closed-sourced middleware)
- yes, methinks. In my experience, 9 times out of 10, these things create a
lot more problems than they solve.

--
Alex Verkhovsky

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