Sun hires the lead developers on the JRuby project to focus on
delivering an implementation of Ruby on the Java Virtual Machine.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2013651,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
Tim Bray (Sun) declares -- JRuby Love
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/09/07/JRuby-guys