Originally Posted by drjones

All accurate. I would throw Python in the mix too, using a framework like Django (http://django-project.com). Rails like features, but with Python in the background.. a very mature language with a huge community of developers, much more than Ruby. That might change if Rails momentum continues, or it may already have. Django/Python doesnt suffer the same deployment/server setup and speed issues that currently plague Rails, IMHO. It's apache integration is extremely mature, tried and true.

Back to the original post.. I would stick to using open source tools. Its really a no brainer, unless you have some specific requirement that only proprietary software can fill.