Dealing with marketing types...

[Aahz]

In article <8B6qe.1742$pa3.909 at newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
flyingfred0  <flyingfred0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>A small software team (developers, leads and even the manager when he's 
>had time) has been using (wx)Python/PostgreSQL for over 2 years and 
>developed a successful 1.0 release of a client/server product.
>
>A marketing/product manager has brought in additional management and 
>"architecture" experts to propose moving the entire thing to a Java 
>(application server) platform for the next release.  They want a 
>"scalable, enterprise solution" (though they don't really know what that
>means) and are going crazy throwing around the Java buzzwords (not to 
>mention XML).

Point out that pushing this means they're almost certainly going to lose
at least some of their development team, which means the next release is
going to start from ground zero without the necessary expertise.  Even
if that doesn't happen, switching to Java is going to take much more time
than improving the current product:

http://www.JoelOnSoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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