Dealing with marketing types...

[Will McGugan]

flyingfred0 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).
> 
> The developers (including myself) are growing uneasy; the management is 
> continuing to push their requirements and ignore the engineers.  I think 
> there's still hope, but I'm at a loss for ideas beyond pointing out the 
> success stories of Python and Zope and language comparisons between 
> Python and Java.
> 
> What experiences have those in the Python community had in these kinds 
> of situations?

Marketing types need a bandwagon to jump on. Point out that Google is 
used by Google, ILM and NASA.


Will McGugan
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