MagLev, Ruby VM on Gemstone OODB, Wows RailsConf

murphee ends along a report from InfoQ: "Gemstone demoed [MagLev,] their Ruby VM built on their GemStone S64 VM, to an ecstatic audience. Gemstone's Smalltalk VM allows OODBs of up to 17 PetaBytes, with none of the old ActiveRecord nonsense: the data is persisted transparently. The Gemstone OODB also takes care of any distribution, allowing the Ruby VM and data to scale across many servers (Cheerio, memcached!). There's also an earlier quite technical interview with Gemstone's Bob Walker and Avi Bryant about MagLev."

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Re:Sounds cool, but not open

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

Can't believe that was modded as a troll. So the company isn't new, there were plenty of other comments that had never heard of the company or its product either. I was wrong, not trolling. More importantly, I think the post made a good pont on the differences between open source products and closed source. I, and others, are more willing to kick the tires of an open source product. Closed source has a more difficult time proving itself