Twisted "ready for the big time"
Twisted is one of our favorite pieces of technology. We’ve used it in Sleevenotez, and we had a major project last year, that was unfortunately canned for budget reasons after we’d done about 2 months modelling and spec work, that we designed in Twisted. I’ve been using it for years and I really think it’s one of the finest software systems I’ve ever come across. Coincidentally, I spent all weekend hacking on a prototype in Twisted (integrating twisted.web2.dav with Oracle’s dbxml,. since you ask).
So it’s nice to see it’s qualities being recognised in one of the more difficult parts of the industry. I think we really are on the cusp of dynamic languages taking their place at the enterprise table alongside Java and .NET. This can only benefit the ecosystem itself — the competition between Java and .NET has often been a competition in featureitis, with sales made to senior IT folk on the basis of checklists of more or less unnecessary features. Hopefully a voice calling for simplicity will help introduce some common sense.