From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-01-07T07:52:20+09:00
Subject: Re: removing Ruby success stories page from Ruby-lang.org

Hi --

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Jeremy McAnally wrote:

>> And that listings of uses of Ruby in commercial projects represents
>> only part of Ruby's success.
>> 
>
> If you can convince a manager who doesn't know programming but likes
> to think he does that something without commercial cred is better than
> something PHP or Java (i.e., one of my former managers), then I will
> give you a sack of money.
>
> Or a hug.  Whichever is cheaper. ;)
>
> It's sad that was what decisions came down to for him (and one other
> persoon Ive worked with), but it's a reality.  And something that can
> be easily addressed by (a slightly better version of) this little
> list.

What I'm saying is that I don't consider the word "success" to be
synonymous with "commercial deployment".


David

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