Inside Pivotal Labs, the Agile Force Behind Twitter

Not a bad article/video at all, but I don't believe the title of this thread to be appropriate.<p>They weren't so much behind twitter, as they were brought on partway through the game to help with some (I assume) scaling concerns.<p>(edit: I like pivotal, but keeping the quality on HN is essential to my being)

Good to see Pivotal Labs getting some of the credit they deserve.

I've heard a VC saying that Pivotal is a great company to build polished software for you if you have raised a big chunk of money.<p>Anyone know how much they actually cost though? Are their rates through the roof because people throw their VC money at them?

I tend to like Pivotal and have friends contracting them.<p>Have any other open source efforts other than Diaspora come out from them? I don't understand how they let Diaspora do a big bang code release of such poor quality if they are the Rails experts they are reported to be.