I tend not to engage in a battle of wits with James McGovern as he is clearly unarmed. However today he writes
If the right thing happens Ruby on Rails will take an implementation leadership position over Smalltalk in 2007 further frustrating those whose job is to evangelize selling Evian to a drowning man Smalltalk.
Even a moment of analysis would show that this statement is ludicrous. Ruby on Rails, whilst a great platform (I use it myself) is a platform for web applications (although I accept that Ruby itself is not) whilst Smalltalk can be used for desktop, server or web applications. Is James really suggesting that there will be more web apps written in RoR than *all* types of apps written in Smalltalk? If so, I'd love to see the facts that support that assertion.