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Tumbleblog style...

"We use Ruby at EarthLink for rapid development for our portal. Although, our engineers seem to think it can't scale so they rebuild everything in Java prior to launch. Insane."

Wonder how much cheaper it would be to just scale the Rails app properly. Of course then they could fire their Java guys. Things that make you go hmm...