John, Unfortunately corporations look at this quite differently to smaller organisations and startups. Corporations tend to look at these things from a financial and maintainability point of view.
If the organisation is already locked in to a development stack/s, its usually quite hard to get them to buy into another stack. It means additional investment not only in developer resource but in maintenance (hosting etc), security and support. It can be argued that the people pulling the purse strings in most organisations where this is not a line function, don't really care about the technology. In fact many eschew open source for the belief of lack of commercial support. Hence why Microsoft and Oracle, and Red Hat (commercial built on open source) are so popular in bug business. Then there's the investment they've already made in hardware and operating systems. To have to support an additional stack and have staff that can intercept and support calls when something in a new stack goes down makes many a CIO/CTO I have met feel uneasy. Fortunately with Rails, you might be able to get away with implementing on JRuby (hence being able to use their J2EE stacks) and using the mysql infrastructure they might already have. You're probably in for a bit of an uphill battle. I think if you can convince them that your solution is superior in terms of overall cost and ease of use over another solution, you should have a win. And make sure you come up with a good argument when they tell you Facebook is built on php. Here's a good place to start :-) http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ Happy to chat further offline. Steve On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Tim Uckun <[email protected]> wrote: > These days most frameworks crib from each other so there are a lot of > rails like frameworks for java, php, C# etc. The big difference is in > the language, tooling, and community. > > In the end I think it's going to come down to what makes your > developers happier. Ruby and Rails are very developer friendly and I > submit a happy developer puts out better code. > > > > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:20 PM, John Pope <[email protected]> > wrote:hese dddw[pw > > Hello Rails developers, > > > > Could anyone recommend some white papers on Ruby On Rails in the > enterprise? > > I need to sell senior management on why rails is the better platform to > > build and scale a REST API than any other technology / stack. > > > > I've searched through ruby on rails advantages on google - but can't > find > > anything high level. > > My target audience is a corporation who have embedded J2EE, php mysql,dot > > net and cobalt legacy systems. > > The thought of them creating a social networking service using any of > these > > just seems wrong. > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > John Pope | Director > > BG Mobile Apps > > > > Level 5, Suite 2, 2 Hill St, Surry Hills, NSW, 2010 > > PO Box 81, Waverley, NSW, 2024 > > T +61423562387 | T #johndpope | W bgmobileapps.com.au > > IN http://www.linkedin.com/in/jdpope > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/_gmd0gJBDWYJ. > > 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/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en.
