burel

I live in an European country and I think especially since the eighties Europe have much more changed than America did. We had a very deep transformations of our society towards the American life style and we copied the American way to put 'market' everywhere. Good ol' European counter-capitalistic socialism is nearly dead. So I think the main thing that has changed for America is the number and the power of it competitors.

do you have any experiences with omake?

maybe not the hard facts you asked for but here is my suggestion:

qooxdoo is made by germans and this is also how it 'feels':

- serious engineering work

- powerfull

- solid

- rather heavyweighted

- rather complex

so this is not a toy, just have a look at the real-life list:

http://qooxdoo.org/community/real_life_examples

So I'd say:

* QOOXDOO -- serious, enterprise windows-like desktop apps

* CAPPUCCINO -- stylish, graphic-centric, mac-like apps

here an article about various techniques to make github (a rails app) fast:

http://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast

very interesting but also full of intimidating stuff:

"[...] For requests to the main website, the load balancer ships your request off to one of the four frontend machines. Each of these is an 8 core, 16GB RAM bare metal server. Their names are fe1, …, fe4. Nginx accepts the connection and sends it to a Unix domain socket upon which sixteen Unicorn worker processes are selecting. One of these workers grabs the request and runs the Rails code necessary to fulfill it. [...]"

I think they know what they are doing ...