From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-12-12T12:24:03+09:00
Subject: Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby

In article <000901c2a17d$b8a091f0$0201a8c0@EVO>,
Russ Freeman <russ@freesoft.co.uk> wrote:
>My advice:
>
>1. Don't tell them you are using Ruby (or mention any technology for
>that matter)
>2. Deliver what your boss wants in business terms on time, to budget
>etc.
>
>What more can he want?!
>

That's certainly one strategy: if you think you can develop this app in 
Ruby in a relatively short amount of time AND if it's a sort of standalone 
app that doesn't depend on other modules written in other languages 
(other than C or C++ which can be fairly easily wrapped for use
in Ruby) then go for it.  You can demo the app to your boss and hopefully be 
done with all the convincing.  

If the edict goes forth to use Java, I suppose if you're convinced that 
you can deliver something quicker in Ruby than a few people coding in Java 
can deliver it in that you could start a parallel effort to try to beat 
them....  but you'd probably have to be working on it on your own time.

Phil
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