It's all well and good for "web startups" and hobby sites, but chances are you're not going to be able to use it in an "enterprise" environment. It's not really designed for interfacing with "legacy" data (like mainframes or existing database schemas), nor (as far as I am aware) with the "big" databases like Oracle, DB2 or SQL Server.
You could probably use it for "standalone" Intranet type applications, and do any integration via web services, but it would be difficult to convince management to allow another environment in these days of standard architectures and integration. Shame really.
It's all well and good for "web startups" and hobby sites, but chances are you're not going to be able to use it in an "enterprise" environment. It's not really designed for interfacing with "legacy" data (like mainframes or existing database schemas), nor (as far as I am aware) with the "big" databases like Oracle, DB2 or SQL Server.
You could probably use it for "standalone" Intranet type applications, and do any integration via web services, but it would be difficult to convince management to allow another environment in these days of standard architectures and integration. Shame really.