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This looks like good news:

Jim Hugunin, the creator of Jython, starts work with Microsoft Monday chartered to work towards a production-ready IronPython, and more broadly to improve the state-of-the-art of dynamic languages on the CLR.

That means that Microsoft is genuinely interested in making things better for dynamic languages. Meanwhile, Sun continues to let the JVM stagnate - because gosh, they did everything that ever needed doing back in the mid 90's. Tip of the hat to Microsoft here