OK, sorry for that statement. You know... there's that whole platform bias thing again.
All your platforms are belong to us. On 1/31/07, Christophe Porteneuve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey Ryan, > > Ryan Gahl a écrit : > > It's for enterprise caliber application development on a large scale > > with minimal effort. Not something anyone is ever going to attempt with > > Ruby (at least anyone in their right minds). Yes, java is a fine > > Now you are (slightly) bashing as well. I take issue with the "ever" > part. As of today, Ruby and Rails certainly can and do provide > enterprise-scale apps with minimal effort, and although this requires > some skill now and then (particularly to properly scale up the server > side), the trend towards better and smoother scaling in the RoR world is > clear. > > I would like this not to keep sliding off into a flamewar, as it seems > to be now. We all have various languages, tools and overall frameworks > we favor. I, for one, have spent enough time on Java and J2EE, C++, > Delphi, Ruby/RoR and (from a strictly non-prod standpoint) .NET to like > many features of C# anyway. > > It is, as you said, a matter of TCO, which includes the critical factor > of vendor lock-in. Not on the tooling anymore (though it certainly > remains, so far, easier and more productive to use VS.NET than other > tools, except maybe for Borland's), but certainly on the language, which > is not, IIRC, as open and standards-based nowadays as it was first > advocated to be. > > So it's TCO. And personal taste. Here we get people who love ASP.NET > (as long as they stay away from VB, I can accept the notion ;-)), J2EE > (with whichever frameworks permutation they use), ColdFusion (as we saw > recently!), PHP, RoR or Delphi. It's fine. To each their own. > > -- > Christophe Porteneuve aka TDD > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Ryan Gahl Application Development Consultant Athena Group, Inc. Inquire: 1-920-955-1457 Blog: http://www.someElement.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
