Tim Bray picked up on an Avi Bryant post from earlier this moneth, where Avi describes Gemstone (and, at the end, ponders the idea of what it would mean if it ran Ruby as well):

Ruby and other gems describes a fascinating framework built by Gemstone, a New York outfit you probably never heard of. I personally think that something like this might be huge in terms of making Rails scale effortlessly to really big problems.

Interestingly enough, Gemstone is located in Portland, OR (not NY) - not terribly far from Tim, as it happens. Also, it already takes an OO language into some really huge places - like container shipping and financial trading. That OO language would be Smalltalk though :)

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