From: Nicholas Wieland Date: 2007-04-07T09:36:51+09:00 Subject: Re: On Enterprise Ruby --Apple-Mail-2-30511201 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Il giorno 01/apr/07, alle ore 10:34, Pat Maddox ha scritto: > On 3/31/07, Nasir Khan wrote: >> I largely agree with Pat's comments. >> >> Most of the people I know who are writing code in Ruby (or Rails) >> fall in 6 >> broad categories. >> >> 1. For fun "scratch the itch" projects. [I belong to this one] >> 2. Open source projects (Rubyforge/Sourceforge), again for fun or >> "in good >> spirit" >> 3. For profit, but mostly small consultancy work for small "Mom >> and Pop" >> enterprises. >> 4. Slightly bigger consultancy/contracting work but mostly under $20k >> variety. >> 5. Free software but paid support (again very small scales 2-5k >> support) >> 6. Marginal scripting work inside big companies. (underground/ >> stealth Ruby >> activity) > > fwiw, my company doesn't fall in any of those categories. We're a > "real" company building "real" software, and our software is built > entirely on Python and Rails. Revenues are definitely over $20k and > hopefully waaaaaaay more than that. Mine too, I develop a web 2.0 project that already attracted customers like TomTom and Havaianas - and bigger (and when I say bigger I mean BIGGER) names that I'm not sure I can post right now ... The project is http://www.zooppa.com, and Ruby has been choosen over other technologies because we can react to changes in no time. Ruby is a real technology with real, measureable benefits over competitors (and issues too of course, just actually we have more benefits than everything else :) ngw -- Nicholas Wieland nicholas.wieland@gmail.com --Apple-Mail-2-30511201--