A Sad Day (Layoffs in Engine Yard's Rubinius team)

I find the automatically generated "Possibly related post" amusing: "Engine Yard Closes $15 Million in Series B Financing" dated July 14, 2008.

Sad, but I'm sure the laid off programmers will have very marketable skills from their experience with Rubinius.

I have a long term Ruby on Rails position where you will develop and maintain a social network application. This is with a very well known company here in the Bay Area.I know there have been layoffs so if any of you are interested please let me know!<p>Thanks! Nick Vella nick@rgatech.com

Engine Yard is a good company full of bright people. I worry a little for them that their business model is based on how complex it is to deploy Rails applications, and with the emergency of Passenger this problem is starting to go away.

Interesting. As an EY customer, this isn't something I like to hear.<p>Was Rubinius a sort of R&#38;D department at EY?

Is it just me, or do a lot of these layoffs have an "oh, yeah, us too, we should do layoffs, yeah!" feeling to them? Why suddenly now?