From: Justin Bailey <jgbailey@...>
Date: 2007-04-27T08:07:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Ruby in a Corporate Environment

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On 4/26/07, Steve Molitor <stevemolitor@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> be others who haven't spoken out.)  The objections are that Ruby is
> not used or accepted enough in the corporate world, and that learning
> Ruby won't help them make more money or more marketable (in the St.
> Louis corporate world).  If corporations start explicitly looking for
> Ruby developers they'll learn it, but not until then.
>
> I'm not quite sure how to answer this one.


Sounds like pure fear or at least laziness to me, but you still have to deal
with it. I'd say put these guys forward as those who can "maintain and
improve existing applications". I'm sure that, regardless of your business,
there are existing applications that need to stay alive, get the occasional
bugfix, and even have custom code applied (maybe). Hopefully, your manager
also cringes when he hears objections like this.

Good luck!

Justin

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