Thoughtworks has finally release a successor for their venerable Cruise Control - Cruise build server. The UI certainly looks nice and it seems quite flexible. There is even a free version (which is limited to two computers), which is great.

What is not clear though is how this product is different from AntHill, Buildforge, Bamboo, TeamCity, [...]

A build server provides great benefits to a development team, including:

Convenient way of sharing build results and artifacts. Ability to run builds without having to mess with command line parameters. Tight integration with version control. History and statistics. Accountability and audit (e.g., who ran what build).

In most instances build servers, such as Hudson, Continuum or LuntBuild are used mostly [...]

I'm surprised by the low traction of LAMP applications in an enterprise (I use the LAMP acronym loosely as a catch all for PHP, Ruby and Python apps). From my observation, for most large organizations Java EE still reigns supreme. While developers and analysts debate performance and "enterprisey" features (or the lack thereof) of the [...]