From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@...>
Date: 2008-04-02T21:00:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Sun's Overview of Ruby and JRuby

On Mar 26, 1:48 pm, Todd Benson <caduce...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Veloso <starlo...@bluebottle.com> wrote:
> > A very good article
> >  (http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/scripting/jruby_nb6/)
> >  on Ruby is up on Sun's main Java site. It makes it clear that Sun is
> >  working hard to support Ruby and trying to open up the language so
> >  that it can enter new enterprises.
>
> >  They are up front about their motives and admit in the article: "Sun's
> >  strategy is tied to the assumption that deployment will follow
> >  adoption, and it derives from the belief that businesses will not
> >  deploy important applications or solutions without support. As Sun CEO
> >  Jonathan Schwartz puts it, 'Mindshare gets market share.'"
>
> >  The article also says:
>
> >  "'We are actively interested in supporting non-Java technologies such
> >  as PHP, Perl, Python, and Rails on our system and OS platforms,'" says
> >  Tim Bray, director of web technologies and Distinguished Engineer at
> >  Sun. 'While Rails is an excellent framework, Sun is making it faster.
> >  Java technology offers first-rate deployment of Rails on GlassFish
> >  while NetBeans 6.0 offers the best Rails and Ruby programmer tools
> >  available.'"
>
> >  This strikes me as a case where Sun's enlightened self interest is
> >  serving the open source community.
>
> >  I wonder: Does anyone think I am being naive about this?
>
> Sounds simply like intellectual real estate to me.  "Hey, look at all
> these bright things that these bright people do with our product!"
> Your share value goes up.

Apparently not:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=JAVA&t=6m&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=