Vassil Dichev, one of the community of programmers dedicated to developing ESME, talks about his experiences with Scala. The Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment (ESME) is an important Open Source project that has become the foundation of a Siemens initiative [1] to boost productivity in the Enterprise. Having chosen Scala as their development language the ESME team has worked together to break new ground in company internal communications. Read the interview [2] to learn how this interesting project unfolded.
Links:
[1] https://www.it-solutions.siemens.com/b2b/it/en/global/press/press-releases/2009/Pages/enterprise-social-messaging-experiment.aspx
[2] http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1319