Urbis.com founder relies on passionate Ruby developers
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| Spurgat had never worked with open source software before he started
| designing Urbis.com. In fact, he's an actor, director, and producer as well
| as a writer. Yet, he knew early on he would use OSS. "I asked the developers
| I was working with in the beginning what was the best. We started working
| with Ruby before the first version was even deployed. Ruby is a very rapid
| development environment and it is very good for bottom-up applications like
| Urbis.com, where we started with a core idea and we continue to build on top
| of that and make adjustments based on trial and error. It's just faster: one
| line of code in Ruby equals 10 lines of code in PHP."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/121609
Related:
Winning OpenSource Frameworks in Web 2.0
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| When I started computing more than a decade ago I remember it took me weeks
| to learn a new program for self-expression, calculation or collaboration.
| Today it's fun, it takes me about five minutes total, it doesn't require
| any skills and within seconds I can take part in a worldwide distributed
| live-communication.
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| [...]
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| The open source community provides various tools that offer a useful
| environment for complex Web 2.0 applications and can help an organization
| to
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| * take advantage of the new social and workplace trends
| * lower costs and improve functionality
| * embrace innovative new products, services and applications
| * increase knowledge and capability
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http://andreasengel.com/2006/08/winning-opensource-frameworks-in-web.html
'MySQL, Linux powers Web 2.0' - O'Reilly
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| Without Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP many Web 2.0 companies would not
| exist today. This is according to Tim O'Reilly, CEO of O'Reilly Media and
| the person most often credited for coining the term Web 2.0.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1125
Web 2.0 Companies choose MySQL
http://www.theopenforce.com/2006/07/alwayson_confer.html
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