Python in the enterprise: Pros and cons

[Cliff Wells]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 05:47:22 -0400
Tim Peters wrote:

> [builder]
> > Python has many fans in the open source community, but is it ready for
> > the enterprise? 
> 
> [Bo M. Maryniuck]
> > What the buzzword "the enterprise" is (as other buzzwords, aka 
> > XML, Java etc)?
> 
> It's an especially annoying American buzzword for "business use, as opposed
> to consumer, research, or educational use".  Your enterprise-ready software
> is primed to take on the challenge of synergizing mission-critical business
> logic in empowering ways.  IOW, it computes the sales tax right more often
> than not <wink>.
> 
> to-the-next-level-going-forward-ly y'rs  - tim

I always took "enterprise" to mean "runs on an AS/400 with a text interface",
or possibly as a synonym for "token-ring".

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Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
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