John Lam wrote:
 >  Regarding Google: I spent some time talking to Alex Martelli of 
Google
>  at OSCON and asked him about Ruby at Google. His bottom line was that
>  Python does the job, it does it rather well and they have no interest
>  in adding a fourth language to their three--language codebase (Java,
>  C++, Python). However, I've heard rumors that the Google satellite
>  office in Seattle has some Ruby stuff happening, largely due to the
>  efforts of Steve Yegge.
>  The bottom line is that *dynamic languages* are a key strategic area
>  for Microsoft's developer platform. They placed their initial bet on
>  Python and that's working out rather well as IronPython is rapidly


No big surprise about GOOG and MSFT. If I had to guess where Ruby will 
make a mark (apart from Rails' stable niche in low-end CRUD websites), 
it would be in enterprise integration projects. I think a lot of people 
who are trying to do that stuff in Java now will be pleasantly surprised 
by Ruby.

That makes Oracle the dark-horse candidate for Ruby's champion. And 
*maybe* IBM's Tivoli business unit.

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