[blrgeek]

Let me see

1. Open Source OS

2. Open Source web server

3. Open Source programming language

4. Open Source web framework

5. Some (relatively) simple customer support ticketing app [not likely to be a system pounding Gorilla]

And they claim that they've not been able to root-cause a Kernel panic and a framework slowdown?

And they've spent $100K on that with no results to show for it?

That sounds really strange to me.

[I've debugged Linux kernel panics on custom stacks, with no disk/logs, only console, 32MB of RAM, PPC cross-compiled - and never run into a dead-end like this]

[facorreia]

"When Qurve got involved with the Charm project the site was being alpha tested by a handful of early adopters, but a months away from being ready for public consumption. Qurve was brought on in a Ruby on Rails development role to help fix bugs, complete the necessary functionality and ensure the necessary code quality for a public launch.

Over the next few months our role expanded to include a complete rewrite of the user interface, a reimplementation of the credit card billing processor and a few more major changes."

http://www.qurve.com/clients/charm/

[ahoyhere]

Yes, Daniel helped us backport to Rails 2.x and make a lot of improvements while we were at it, after everybody had given up on finding our Rails 3.x performance problems.