Jimmy Schmenti, now formerly of Microsoft and who worked on IronRuby and IronPython, announces the end of IronRuby support by Microsoft. http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2010/08/start-spreading-news-future-of-jimmy.html

As he points out, this is a typical middle-management decision in a large corporation. Well, a large corporation with a lack of vision at the top: it's possible to be different, just very difficult.

Hank