On 29 Mar 2011 12:47, "Peter A Pilgrim" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > See intermixed > > On Mar 29, 12:36 pm, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 29 March 2011 12:20, Peter A Pilgrim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Mar 29, 11:37 am, Martijn Verburg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hey Peter, > > > > > > Well since you're form London as well I assume you've caught the news > > > > of the Guardian moving some of its backend to Scala? > > > > > Yes I know about the Guardian. I went to their presentation in > > > January. > > > The situation internationally is where I am at ... and I do want this > > > debate to be censored. > > > > > > There's a bunch of businesses that are also starting to investigate > > > > polyglot programming, one investment bank I know for example is using > > > > Clojure for statistical log analysis. > > > > > Interesting, when I asked said investment banks about their potential > > > Scala opportunities, the > > > answer is silence ... so you can hear my incandescence rising ... > > > I do not want to deflect the opinions of other > > > > I'm personally aware of a few banks running skunkworks Scala projects, > > you're also seeing a lot of interest from hedge funds and from companies > > that sell to hedge funds. On top of this are some very large household-name > > media companies, a few firms involved in online gaming, and at least two > > companies working with SatNav/GPS. > > And it is always the same names (sigh) > > > I'm sadly not at liberty to name names here, but I CAN confirm that EDF > > trading has offices in the UK where they're working with Scala, and that the > > NHS has some Scala in production. > > I may as well pack up my showel and toolbox and go back down the mine. > Yeah well... That how it is London. > > What about anywhere else in the flipping world? >
Sweden is doing very well here, Germany's not to bad either. I've also heard of good stuff coming out of New York > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
