Engine Yard Congratulates JRuby Team on Winning IDG’s InfoWorld Bossie Award SAN FRANCISCO, September 21, 2010 – Engine Yard, the leading cloud computing platform for Ruby on Rails, today celebrated that JRuby has won IDG’s InfoWorld Bossie Award 2010 for Best Open Source Application Development Software. InfoWorld, a leading IT publication, selected JRuby because it delivers the full Ruby language on the Java platform (JVM) making it easier for enterprises to build applications faster while leveraging their investment in Java.
Each year, InfoWorld's Bossies (Best of Open Source Software awards) recognize the best open source software for business. The InfoWorld Test Center has a mission to identify the most promising and cost-effective products available to IT organizations. Increasingly, those products – from application development tools to platforms and infrastructure software – come from the open source community.
“The Bossie 2010 award winners are our top picks among open source projects for many different reasons,” said Doug Dineley, Executive Editor/Test Center, InfoWorld. “Some are longtime favorites, and others are completely new. Some are fast ways to fulfill a familiar need, while others allow companies to do things that weren't possible or affordable until they came along. The one quality they all share is extreme usefulness, and a combination of features that beats all others in their class.”
The Bossie 2010 award follows the successful release of JRuby 1.5 which included tighter Java library integration, enhanced Ruby compatibility, and improved Windows support. For more information or to download JRuby, visit http://www.jruby.org
The InfoWorld Bossie Awards for 2010 were announced on the InfoWorld website on August 25, 2010. The full list of award winners can be found at: http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/bossie-awards-2010-the-best-open-source-software-the-year-115
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