SDForum's 3rd Ruby on Rails Conference

So I gave a talk last Friday at SDForum's 3rd Ruby on Rails Conference, courtesy a request by Michael "Max" Maximilien.  My talk, "RoR for the Enterprise: Ready or Not?  A Database Perspective," built on lots of discussions with Leon Katsnelson, Klaus Roder and Max basically had these two main points:

1. For RoR that manage their own data, the scalability and flexibility of RoR app building needs to be matched with the scalability and flexibility of the database.  DB2 is a great choice for this.  DB2 Express-C will get you started with no pain.  DB2 pureXML will allow you to manage XML (I gave an example of an in house application that Leon is building).  And DB2 performance, reliability and disaster recovery will allow you to grow.
2. For RoR applications that extend existing databases and applications, there are also some positives.  In particular, our Info 2.0 vision and REST/Atom friendliness of Ruby go well together.  However, it is not a bed of roses for most cases.  Enterprise data and databases tend to be not as clean as what RoR wants.  Autoincrementing "id" field, really? Also, ruby skills, separation of concerns etc. make the style of RoR development and that of enterprise class applications not necessarily a great match.  So more work is needed there (I got comments which implied that the database vendors need to do all the things to come closer to the RoR community, which I think is extreme.  The database community has its own momentum, and it needs to be a partnership.)  What do you guys think?

At the end of the talk, one of the organizers caught me and taped me for a 5 min interview.  Highlights of the interview are here.

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