Is Ruby ready for corporate IT? Is corporate IT ready for Ruby? Is there any difference between British Telecom and 37 Signals? Alex Verkhovsky will talk about all that, and what the RubyWorks project is doing to eliminate obstacles on Ruby's way into the Enterprise.

ThoughtWorks Studios Product Manager for Mingle, Julian Boot, will discuss how the challenges routinely encountered delivering complex business systems that led them to develop Mingle. He'll touch upon the work done to make this Ruby on Rails application flexible enough to be customized to the unique attributes of any project.