Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
>  Microsoft wants to maintain its monopoly platform. IBM is somewhat
>  confused: they think they want to sell more enterprise services but
>  that business is stagnant and they are rapidly devolving into a
>  pre-Gerstner style hodgepodge of product businesses that compete
>  violently against each other as well as with everyone else. To Oracle,
>  sales is a blood sport and they want to completely own every bit of
>  the enterprise computing stack in every company above a certain size.
>  Sun knows what business they are in, and they also know they need to
>  find a new business. Google is laser-focused on search, even though to
>  outside appearances they look like they just want to take over the
>  world.
> 
>  How does Ruby help any of these players (or others) achieve their
>  business goals? (I'm not questioning that there may be a good answer
>  to this question, nor am I trying to start a flamewar. I do think it
>  could be helpful if we come up with the answers rather than waiting
>  for them to come from someone else.)

Andrew Carnegie once said, " The men who have succeeded are men who have 
chosen one line and stuck to it." Look at the success that Google is 
experiencing as a result of their "laser focus."

~Nate