On Nov 13, 2007 10:49 AM, Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt / gmail.com> wrote:
> It boils down to a few things: availability of paid support;
> availability of _experienced_ contractors; someone else using it
> first.

In my books, the defining feature of the Big Corporate IT (aka
Enterprise) is "a zoo of technologies spanning the last 15-30 years of
the history of  computing, that need special care, feeding and an
ability to talk to each other".

Otherwise, your post gave me a few chuckles because you just about
gave a bullet point list of everything ThoughtWorks has done / is
doing to help Ruby cross the chasm. Save for the "killer business app"
thing... :)

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Alexey Verkhovsky
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