Rails at one; we're looking into liftweb/scala at the other. We see the robustness of the jvm as a lot more useful at the latter- and scala seems like a good f

Rails at one; we're looking into liftweb/scala at the other. We see the robustness of the jvm as a lot more useful at the latter- and scala seems like a good fit (better than java itself, or ruby for that matter) for the kind of datamining we're going to do. Granted, C would likely be much faster, but the ability to include third party java packages and the amount of boilerplate needed for C turned us off to that. Add in a good web framework like Lift, and we don't see the need to fracture our server-side apps into many different languages.