j2ee vs. python (and what our evil competitors are saying about python)

[Bo M. Maryniuck]

On Tuesday 09 July 2002 01:18, curt finch wrote:
> Our free web timesheet app is written totally in Python.
> One of our competitors is saying the following
> things about python to our customers.  Help me make them look stupid.
> Please?

Do not make them look stupid -- that is not nesessary. ;-)
What I would like to forward is a letter to me from ESR, when I had same war 
Zope / Python vs. Java / JSP and I think this completely will help you here:

----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: Re: Stupid wars
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 22:45:26 -0400
From: Eric S Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com>

Java isn't bad.  What I would point out is that if you develop with a closed-
source language, you are likely to have problems with:

(a) subtle bugs in the libraries and tools, which without source access
    you cannot fix.

(b) inadequate documentation of edge conditions, which without source
    access you cannot supplement by looking at what is actually going on.

(c) security; you don't know what code is in there, and cannoy audit for
 bugs. --
                <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

-- 
Sincerely yours, Bogdan M. Maryniuck

"I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's source code than
10 minutes listening to Musak waiting for technical support which isn't."
(By Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center)