Nice to read that heroku is growing. But Ruby developers are waiting for its final release to fully benefit from it.

The Standish Group (http://standishgroup.com/) has done a number of research studies about IT projects - some of which have been featured in CIO magazine. Generally, they are reporting a 70-80% failure rate, although this failure can be attributed to many causes: project canceled, lack of funds, poor management buy-in, etc. I believe this failure rate also includes various levels of failure (not just failure to launch the product), including failure to meet customer expectations. In my experience managing IT and Internet projects, managing customer expectations, which constantly change, can be extremely challenging, but also very rewarding.

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