{"id":83,"date":"2006-03-19T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2009-01-25T21:23:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T05:23:13","slug":"enterprise-thought-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"“Enterprise” thought leadership?"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Heinemeier Hansson<\/a>, creator of Rails<\/a> at 37signals<\/a>, takes James McGovern<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0some Java\/J2EE author \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to task for his \u00c3\u00bcber-lame rant against Ruby in the Enterprise<\/a> in a great post titled Boy, is James McGovern enterprise or what!<\/cite><\/a><\/p>\n

> So by Enterprise, Architect, and Enterprise Architect standards, this gent must be the top of the pop. Thus, allow me to make this perfectly clear: I would be as happy as a clam never to write a single line of software that guys like James McGovern found worthy of The Enterprise.<\/p>\n

> If Ruby, Rails, and the rest of the dynamic gang we’re lumped together to represent, is not now, nor ever, McGovern Enterprise Ready\u00e2\u201e\u00a2, I say hallelujah! Heck, I’ll repeat that in slow motion just to underscore my excitement: HAL-LE-LU-JAH!<\/p>\n

> With that out of the way, we’re faced with a more serious problem. How do we fork the word enterprise? The capitalized version has obviously been hijacked by McGovern and his like-minded to mean something that is synonymous with hurt and pain and torment.<\/p>\n

Indeed, McGovern’s rant reads more like a parody<\/em> of a rant than the real thing:<\/p>\n

> 13\\. Lets say there is a sixteen week project and the productivity stuff was true and Ruby could save me an entire three weeks which would be significant. Since Ruby is a new vendor and not represented by existing vendors I already do business with, do you think that I will spend more than three weeks in just negotiating the contract?<\/p>\n

Yes, because there is some vendor<\/em> out there named “Ruby that you need to sign a contract with<\/em> before you can begin a project.<\/p>\n

Despite his claims to be agile, McGovern obviously doesn’t know the first thing about agile development. People come first, sure, but agile development doesn’t say that tools aren’t important. Not using good tools makes it harder for good people to do good work.<\/p>\n

That’s why I love developing software for<\/em> Mac OS X and why I love helping people develop software on<\/em> Mac OS X: We have great tools like Cocoa, Core Data, Interface Builder, OCUnit, WebObjects, and Xcode, and these can be used by great developers to do great things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails at 37signals, takes James McGovern \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0some Java\/J2EE author \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to task for his \u00c3\u00bcber-lame rant against Ruby in the Enterprise in a great post titled Boy, is James McGovern enterprise or what! > So by Enterprise, Architect, and Enterprise Architect standards, this gent must be the top of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63,3],"tags":[12,9,8,75,11,4,77,22,76,37,68,17],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-technology","tag-agile-development","tag-cocoa","tag-core-data","tag-enterprise","tag-interface-builder","tag-mac","tag-ocunit","tag-programming","tag-rails","tag-ruby","tag-webobjects","tag-xcode"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p74loH-1l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eschatologist.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}