Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
>  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.
>  

Hmmm ... I can see the headlines now ... an Oracle hostile takeover of
an open-source community. Sheesh ...