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That would be a pretty awesome development. But Google buying a Rails platform would be kind of a surprise move.
by jasonvorhe 8y ago
That would be a pretty awesome development. But Google buying a Rails platform would be kind of a surprise move.
- pejrich 8y agoWhy? I can't imagine a corporation the size of Google would decide to not buy a company, purely based on what language/framework it uses, assuming that buying the company otherwise makes business sense.
- dotjosh 8y agoI'd bet "being on the Rails stack" would carry little weight if they were deciding to acquire them.
- londons_explore 8y agoSoftware stack is actually a pretty big decider. php was pretty much a dealbreaker for google acquisition years ago. It pretty much means google might be happy to buy shares in the company as an investment, but won't buy the whole company and plan to integrate it into their own offering.
- tny_0 8y agoGithub was a rails platform and google was interested in buying them.
- kevsim 8y agoGoogle bought Crashlytics/Fabric from Twitter and that is (was?) a product based on the Rails stack