title: Portable scripting language for deployment?
body: <p>We have set of unix shell(ksh) scripts used for deployment of our product.<br>
  Actually there is a mixture of ksh+sed+awk+ant code.<br>
  Our product works on AIX only so we did not try to do our scripts portable.<br>
  But now we need to run part of our scripts not only on AIX but on Windows also.<br>
  We need to have ability to create/update DB both from AIX and from Windows.<br>
  Now for this part of functionality we use ksh+ant.  </p>
  
  <p>We have a requirement to install as few as possible tools on this Windows box.<br>
  In the best case it should be JRE+our products only.<br>
  What do you propose to use instead of ksh?
  As I know we can put Groovy jar into our project and write this part of functionality on Groovy.<br>
  In this case this code will be portable.<br>
  May be there are better solutions than Groovy?</p>