From: Kevin Brown <blargity@...>
Date: 2005-09-30T12:02:28+09:00
Subject: Re: IBM vs. Microsoft vs. ... Ruby?

On Thursday 29 September 2005 17:26, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Sep 29, 2005, at 6:21 PM, bonefry wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > there are 2 important things missing from Ruby right now: a fast VM
> > and
> > a good IDE. Until you have those you really cannot do "Enterprise
> > Scale" applications.
>
> Obviously, that's very much opinion only.  I think there has been a
> lot of evidence on this mailing list this past year that might bring
> that opinion into question.

Hi, I'm writing enterprise software that will be used simultaneously by web 
users and CSRs using a client server scheme in Ruby.  I beg to differ. :-) 
(just figured I'd pipe up)  It's definitely fast enough for the job (the main 
latency is waiting for IO, not the processing time) and great at the task.

> James Edward Gray II