[Catalyst] O'Reilly Radar

[Sebastian Riedel]

08.12.2005 18:28 Ovid:

> Hi all,
>
> My apologies if this has already been posted.  I didn't see a link to
> it.
>
> http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/12/ 
> ruby_book_sales_surpass_python.html
> Or:  http://tinyurl.com/ae37b
>
> For anyone who's interested in a bit of advocacy, there's an
> interesting O'Reilly Radar entry about Ruby book sales finally
> surpassing Python book sales -- mostly only the strength of Rails.  As
> for the bit which might interest Catalyst developers:
>
>   Ruby on Rails is indeed, as Jonathan suggests, the driver
>   of the interest in Ruby, which, after all, has been around
>   for years without generating the kind of surge it's seen
>   in the past six months. But as you can see, we're on the
>   fence about whether or not Python has an answer to RoR (and
>   we're not even asking the question about Perl!)
>
> Make of that what you will.

It's really no surprise, we asked O'Reilly if they would like to  
publish a Catalyst book a few weeks ago, they said no and indicated  
that they only want to support one framework at all...


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sebastian