Honestly, I feel like the title here is a little misleading. The message from the netbeans team is that they just didn't have enough resources to support both

Honestly, I feel like the title here is a little misleading. The message from the netbeans team is that they just didn't have enough resources to support both Rails and upcoming Java 7 and so they had to drop development. They also are encouraging the community to pick up and continue development of Rails support for the IDE. I guess it's possible that a lack of resources is just an excuse to remove that support, but to me this seems like a genuine reason. I don't get the sense that Oracle just pulled the plug for political reasons.