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Some Tim Bray comments from the Rails podcast that I found interesting: "As a Sun shareholder I'm a huge Ruby fan, because I see a hotbed of creativity and innovation and creation of great new software and ... I think you're gonna need computers to run that software on, and we want to sell it."

I gave Tim a chance to plug Sun's new hardware for servers, which is optimized for horizontal scaling. He described the 8 core processor-based systems and said, among other things: "Scaleable web frameworks, and let's be honest, we kind of learned this lesson from PHP, let's admit it, they have to be shared nothing..."

According to Fadi Azhari, director of outbound marketing at Sun, the UltraSparc T1 servers (which Tim was referring to by the codename Niagara) will be particularly well-suited to fast-growing, Web-based tiers of applications. "Today, especially with the Web apps, there is a lot of waiting for data to come into the CPU. CoolThreads allows multiple threads of computing into the CPU so there is maximum throughput on the same amount of real estate. It's like having multiple lanes in the supermarket instead of everyone having to wait in one line for one register."

Maybe Solaris will give Linux a good run for its money in the production Rails world?