Ruby and Rails are planting the seeds for a much-needed paradigm shift in enterprise software development.

Bloatware and enterprise stacks have run their course.

Like it or not, the secret is out: Enterprises are increasingly using Ruby and Rails in anger for mission-critical systems.

Many of them spend tens of millions on software development every year.

Some of them are sane enough to "get" simplicity and elegance.

But most of them just want their software quicker.

They are not going away; no matter how many stones you throw.

Sit back and the usual suspects will happily provide them the bloatware to make Ruby "ready" for the enterprise.

Get involved, and you can show them a better way.

And convert the jobs of millions of enterprise developers into places to do meaningful work by creating good software.

While radically increasing the value you deliver.