From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-03-28T01:06:20+09:00
Subject: Re: On Enterprise Ruby

Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
> On 3/27/07, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:
>>
>> Give us a rational, testable definition of "enterprise,"
> 
> 
> Whenever someone says "not ready for the enterprise", the E-word usually
> stands for "large companies whose core business is not software".
> 
> These places typically have post-technical managers in charge of strategic
> IT decisions, lots of money to throw at IT problems (much more than a Web
> 2.0 startup), and a zoo of systems and applications, spanning the last 25
> years of the history of computing. Some of those applications need to share
> data and otherwise cooperate.
> 
> Rational enough? :)
Sure :-)

Defined like that, the statement "Ruby isn't ready for the enterprise" 
is just as easily reversed - "this enterprise isn't ready for Ruby."  I 
say this because there certainly are enterprises using Ruby, and using 
it well, now - you're actually in a better position than me to know the 
truth of this.

-- 
Alex