__/ [ larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Tuesday 27 February 2007 04:50 \__
> On Feb 26, 6:17 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Microsoft Ponders Ruby Language
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Microsoft is "very interested" in the Ruby programming language
>> | and also plans to expand its Expression design tools line, a
>> | Microsoft official said this week.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129348/article.html
>>
>> They just try to keep/grab developers out of Linux. They do the same thing
>> with Python while neglecting their own, Windows-centric/exclusive P/Ls.
>>
>> Related:
>>
>> Ruby on Rails is gaining momentum.
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Since its first release by David Heinemeier Hansson in middle 2004,
>> | Ruby on Rails has enjoyed strong positive trend both in the open
>> | source and web development community. This trend can be easily
>> | noticed in Google Trend's statistics.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.railsonwave.it/2006/12/12/ruby-on-rails-is-gaining-momentum
>
>
> That sounds like the PHP announcement a few months back - just replace
> PHP with Ruby. I recon MS is trying to "help" these popular projects
> - to make sure thier IIS servers work as well as Linux servers for
> these (which from what I gather are having performance issues compared
> to Apache.
Yes, and the same with XenSource. They buy their parity/advantage. Even
Mozilla. They lure the developers their way to have things optimised the way
which suits them.
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