The Enterprise Architects Strike Back!!
James McGovern, self-confessed Enterprise Architect and Thought Leader, states that Ruby is simply not ready for the enterprise. In his somewhat entertaining post, he gives more emphasis on the cultural aspect of software development. As expected, there has been a rash of responses to this:
- David H. H [Boy, is James McGovern enterprise or what!]
- Dare Obasanjo [My Website is Bigger Than Your Enterprise]
- Anne 2.0 [When Fundamentalists Meet: 37Signals vs. McGovern]
- Coté [McGovern Comes out Swingin' on Ruby in the Enterprise]
In McGovern’s post, he states that cultural factors play a bigger part in the development process than technical issues and as he so eloquently put it, “An idiot with a tool is still a fool”. While he may have well made one valid point about needing “established” research firms like Forrester or Gartner show some love to Ruby in order to get the PHBs in the enterprise to start noticing it, I take issue with the rest.
What peeved me the most about the post was that McGovern claimed that there were no good books on Ruby and that they touched only on the simplistic aspects of software design. Excuse me, James…would something like Enterprise Integration with Ruby interest you? Or how about the Pickaxe?
RTFB, McGovern.