Links for January 28th

• Oracle spurns Ruby devs for Java love
  "Ruby-on-Rails, once an exciting Web 2.0 language flirted with by Sun Microsystems, has no future at Oracle."
• Rethinking Ruby's role in the cloud
  "I urge IT decision makers to exercise caution when considering Ruby for new enterprise projects. Jumping on the Ruby bandwagon, when usage statistics and vendor actions suggest caution, doesn't appear to be a winning IT strategy. On the other hand, using Ruby for a new application in order to learn the pros and cons of including Ruby into the IT toolkit is valuable, especially if the alpha geeks turn out to be correct about Ruby and Ruby on Rails."
• NetBeans IDE drops Ruby on Rails backing
  'The founder of Ruby on Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, said in an email that he was "not surprised" by the NetBeans move. "I never came across anyone using NetBeans for Rails. Everyone I talk to uses TextMate, VIM, or Emacs. Full-fledged IDEs are not all that popular in the Rails world," Hansson said.'
• Infoboom: 13 Reasons Not to Go to the Cloud
• Microsoft WP7 Shipments Start Slow
  "Some Eastern European vendors mention the lack of local language as a main barrier to increasing demand." Yeah, that'd be a damn good reason.
• Video in the Enterprise is Not What Most Workers Want
  "Forrester's workforce employee survey found that 72% of the 5,519 respondents don't want desktop videoconferencing at work." If you're not looking at a baby, you probably don't care for video.
• Microsoft Puts Mobile On Mute In Earnings
  Speculation that Nokia will join WP7 land, instead of Android. Also, noting that WP7 handset sales are probably below Android daily sales.
• StackMob Is ‘Heroku For Mobile’. And Proud Of It. And Potentially Just As Huge.
• Feature: Withings WiFi body scale review: weight data and cool graphs
  I got one of these for my birthday. It's awesome.
• Server and Tools shine in Microsoft results – so why is Bob Muglia leaving?
  "Still, these are good figures overall and show how commentators such as myself tend to neglect the continuing demand for Windows and Office when obsessing about a future which we think will be dominated by cloud plus mobile."
• US telco Verizon acquires cloud provider Terremark
  One of the "enterprise grade" public clouds is bought by a US telco.
• Why Utility Computing Failed (But Cloud Computing Didn’t)
• In U.S. courts, Facebook posts become less private
• IBM Press room IBM Sees Cloud Adoption Soar with New Clients, Partnerships – United States
• New Nokia boss drops grenade: hints at strategy shift • The Register

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