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• Rebuilt Realestate.com.au ramps up Ruby on Rails

  By Rodney Gedda | 17 November, 2010 09:45

  Property portal Realestate.com.au has been re-engineered from the ground up with its legacy Perl codebase being replaced with Java and Ruby on Rails.

• 7 programming languages on the rise

  By Peter Wayner | 26 October, 2010 00:51

  In the world of enterprise programming, the mainstream is broad and deep. Code is written predominantly in one of a few major languages. For some shops, this means Java; for others, it's C# or PHP. Sometimes, enterprise coders will dabble in C++ or another common language used for high-performance tasks such as game programming, all of which turn around and speak SQL to the database.

• Open source Ruby, Python hit rocky ground at Microsoft

  By Rodney Gedda | 09 August, 2010 12:32

  Microsoft's open source IronRuby and IronPython projects are shrouded in a dubious future as the last of the full-time IronRuby developers departed the company last month.

• Ruby shining on Java, Windows, and Mac OS

  By Paul Krill | 21 November, 2009 12:20

  Ruby, the popular open source dynamic language, is making headway not only on Java but also on the Windows and Mac platforms.

• Red Hat defends its subscription license model for Linux

  By Paul Krill | 07 September, 2009 06:29

  Anyone finding Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscriptions a tough sell for management used to Microsoft's one-time license fee for Windows must emphasize that there are more factors to be considered, chiefly return on investment, Red Hat officials said Friday.