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Ruby Gets Some Enterprise-level Support
As Ruby on Rails rose to prominence in the last few years, the platform has faced derision from some programmers over its inability to scale for enterprise applications. Ruby on Rails might be good for making interactive web pages, but it was no C or Java. Benchmark Capital aims to change that with an investment of $3.5 million in New Relic Inc. out of Menlo Park, Calif.
Lew Cirne, the founder of Wily Technology, has created New Relic to do for Ruby on Rails what Wily did for Java 10 years ago. In a nod to the current business environment, New Relic will deliver its Ruby on Rails application management software as a service rather than as shrinkware. Cirne says the fact that the Ruby language ad the Ruby on Rails platform made it a nice target for possible enterprise adoption.
However, the market had changed in other ways and I question if Ruby will gain the same level of prominence that Java has. When Java came out, Sun and IBM pushed it, whereas Ruby and Ruby on Rails has grown very much from the bottom up. Cirne likens Ruby’s rise to the type of adoption that Linux managed to achieve without a corporate backer, but I don’t know if the existence of the Rails framework will make up for the fragmented market.
Today’s programmers can build in PHP or Python. Earlier this month Google launched its Google Apps Engine with support for Python rather than Rails. So while New Relic may create value, it may not be able to achieve the type of success that Wily managed to grab by focusing on Java.
RightScale Takes $4.5M for the Cloud
RightScale, a company acting as an easy front-end console for Amazon Web Services, has raised $4.5 million from Benchmark Capital. The Santa Barbara, Calif.-based startup was formed in September 2007 to help companies provision and monitor the web services products offered by Amazon. With this funding it plans to build support for more ready-made programs, such as pre-packaged load balancing programs or automatic MySQL setup on AWS.
RightScale’s funding is good for the startup, and it continues the inexorable movement of cloud computing toward the enterprise. Cloud computing is making the same journey as software-as-a-service, which was first adopted at smaller companies and then made inroads at Fortune 500 firms. Companies like RightScale will help smooth the way for enterprises that need to worry about reliability, security and compliance.
Being able to easily provision and track cloud assets is an important step in getting enterprises on board. It’s still early days, but as Kevin Harvey, a general partner at Benchmark, points out, “Paying for compute power based on need is going to be almost so compelling that people who run their own data centers will feel foolish.”
I’m not sure every enterprise will feel that way, but the trend is obvious. Currently RightScale only supports deployments on Amazon’s cloud offerings, but CEO Michael Crandell expects the recent additions of persistent storage and some basic support will only help RightScale’s business, as it makes it more enterprise-friendly.
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