From: pixelnate <pixelnate@...>
Date: 2006-08-18T06:23:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby is exploding onto the scene as Java did at the end of 1990s

Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> Microsoft wants to maintain its monopoly platform. IBM is somewhat
> confused: they think they want to sell more enterprise services but
> that business is stagnant and they are rapidly devolving into a
> pre-Gerstner style hodgepodge of product businesses that compete
> violently against each other as well as with everyone else. To Oracle,
> sales is a blood sport and they want to completely own every bit of
> the enterprise computing stack in every company above a certain size.
> Sun knows what business they are in, and they also know they need to
> find a new business. Google is laser-focused on search, even though to
> outside appearances they look like they just want to take over the
> world.
>
> How does Ruby help any of these players (or others) achieve their
> business goals? (I'm not questioning that there may be a good answer
> to this question, nor am I trying to start a flamewar. I do think it
> could be helpful if we come up with the answers rather than waiting
> for them to come from someone else.)

Andrew Carnegie once said, " The men who have succeeded are men who have 
chosen one line and stuck to it." Look at the success that Google is 
experiencing as a result of their "laser focus."

~Nate