From: Matt Sergeant <matt@...>
Date: 2001-02-01T18:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10209] Market for XML Web stuff

I'm trying to get a handle on what the size of the market for AxKit would be
in the Ruby world. For the uninitiated, AxKit is a mod_perl based XML
application server (see link in my .sig for more details).

The number of Japanese users of Ruby makes me think it might be a good
platform, especially given AxKit's strong I18N support, but as a businessman
I can't dedicate a port unless there's a market. Obviously I'd be bringing
with me XML::XPath (a ~100% compliant XPath implementation) and XPathScript
too.

So would this be a good development platform for people? I would be looking
to use either mod_ruby or one of the pure ruby httpd's - are these stable
for people (I mean in serious production use, with millions of hits a week,
like mod_perl is)?

(note for any Perlians lurking here, this does not and would not mean the
demise of the Perl implementation!)

-- 
<Matt/>

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