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I own personal licenses for Idea, RubyMine, and PyCharm - all amazing good products.

Where I am working now, Eclipse is the supported environment so I am using it. OK, but not as good...

BTW, when they open sourced Idea for Java, I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to build. Nicely packaged.

Is there any point in owning a license for IntelliJ and RubyMine/PyCharm? I thought that IntelliJ Ultimate had all the features of RubyMine and PyCharm but I haven't used them so I could be mistaken.

You are correct, Ruby and Python plugins add most of RubyMine/PyCharm features to IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate. You may want to have separate IDEs if you need more lightweight environment. RubyMine & PyCharm are in general updated more frequently too.

RubyMine and PyCharm feel more light weight, meaning quicker and less resource use.

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