From InfoWorld, Sun picks up a gem in Ruby:

JRuby core developers Charles Oliver Nutter and Thomas Enebo will officially become members of Sun later this month, they announced separately today in their respective blogs…

One of the JRuby team’s PR specialists has already put together a list of AFAQ (anticipated frequently asked questions) about what this move means for JRuby — and Sun.

…Sun’s plans are threefold: To learn more about emerging dynamically typed languages; “to ensure that the Ruby programming language, in its JRuby form, is available to the community of Java developers”; and to examine the “possibility that the Java platform may prove to be an attractive deployment option for existing Ruby applications in certain scenarios.”