A very nice article by Martin Fowler of ThoughtWorks. When you read it from a customer/client/procurer/corporate perspective, it’s quite revealing.  Allow me to quote specific parts that I like:

… JRuby offers the choice of just deploying into a Java container, turning a Rails app into an easily deployed war file. I think this will make Ruby on Rails a much more viable choice in lots of enterprise environments.

There seems an excellent chance that Ruby and Rails could become a significant platform for IT develop over the next few years. We’re already seeing signs of this at ThoughtWorks – 40% of our new business this year in the US is Ruby work.

[Ruby/Rails] Success is not just being an outbreak of sanity in the IT world, but actually leading that world.

Technologies that make it harder for programmers to do what they like to do best – make a difference for the businesses they are supporting. (This week’s memorable tale was of a large company that spent eight million dollars on an enterprise-wide version control system that couldn’t branch properly.)

I definitely wouldn’t want that last one happen to anyone… (again)

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