From: Sean Mehan <sean@...>
Date: 2007-11-15T00:07:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Why are so many people confused about "Enterprise" software?

Kyle,

I agree with much of what you have written and argues, and agree that  
there is little about Ruby which should exclude it from this camp of  
Enterprise ready.

I would have to disagree about what it means to be Enterprise ready:  
To me, as an architect working at making a University infrastructure  
work, and to the vast majority of my colleagues, enterprise would mean  
things like 1) available to everyone (and able to take the scaling  
issues involved in that impl, i.e., it can take all that you have, so  
say, for me, 36K users), reliable (and find me a metric for that other  
than uptime!-). That's the no argue stuff.

Better Enterprise ready (for me and my ilk!-) would include things like:

interoperable, based on open standards, APIs to integrate, modular in  
user AuthN/Z space...

but, again, the real point here is that I don't see anything in there  
that would *exclude* ruby apps from that enterprise stack. I feel that  
was the important thrust of your post.

best

sean mehan


On 13 Nov 2007, at 17:49, Kyle Schmitt wrote:

> Really, why are so many people confused about "Enterprise" software,
> or what "Enterprise Ruby" would be?
>
> Enterprise software is not in any way, faster, more scalable, more
> reliable, or better written than non enterprise software.
> People need to get over thinking that that's the way to make it  
> "Enterprise"
>
> It boils down to a few things: availability of paid support;
> availability of _experienced_ contractors; someone else using it
> first.



Sean Mehan
Head of Integrated Technologies
Learning and Information Services
UHI - www.uhi.ac.uk
www.weblogs.uhi.ac.uk/sm00sm/
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