Have you seen all the Ruby/Rails books sold by Prag? I'm sure those are heavy hitters compare to some random authors by O'Reilly. I'm sure O'Reilly is bitter that he can't be the ONE in Rails book publishing
Sure there are many "consultants". On the other hand, I'm sure people would prefer to hire consultants from Pragmatic Programmers or those Rails authors that published books under Prag Prog.
I don't think it's a fair playing field since PragProg is the Rails Inc. if you watch it carefully.
Except they don't do consulting, there are only 2 of them, and running Pragmatic Studios is their full time job. The point is moot anyway, there is way more Rails work floating around right now then could go to a select group of 50 (ish) people.
I'm sure they do whenever they have time. Plus the people affiliated with Pragmatic people are the ones who do the consulting. Either way it looks Rail Inc. enough to me. Just a matter of the number of people available to do the consulting projects.
Maybe 50 people in the world associated with Pragmatic Studio, yet there 1600 people at RailsConf, most of who work with Rails full time. Sorry, that argument just doesn't cut it.
Have you seen pragmaticstudio.com?
Have you seen all the Ruby/Rails books sold by Prag? I'm sure those are heavy hitters compare to some random authors by O'Reilly. I'm sure O'Reilly is bitter that he can't be the ONE in Rails book publishing
Sure there are many "consultants". On the other hand, I'm sure people would prefer to hire consultants from Pragmatic Programmers or those Rails authors that published books under Prag Prog.
I don't think it's a fair playing field since PragProg is the Rails Inc. if you watch it carefully.