Talking to marketing people about Python

[Kay Schluehr]

Roy Smith wrote:
> I'm working on a product which for a long time has had a Perl binding for
> our remote access API.  A while ago, I wrote a Python binding on my own,
> chatted it up a bit internally, and recently had a (large) customer enquire
> about getting access to it.
>
> I asked for permission to distribute the Python binding, and after a few
> weeks of winding its way through the corporate bureaucracy I got an email
> from a product manager who wants to meet with me to "understand the market
> demand for Python API before we commercialize it".
>
> Can anybody suggest some good material I can give to him which will help
> explain what Python is and why it's a good thing, in a way that a
> marketing/product management person will understand?

There isn't an immediate economical benefit, but a technician has to
care for the "state of the art". It is both a net-effect regarding
technologies and developers but also something more vague, which is a
little harder to get: a product has to have a certain appeal. Perl
might have been a good decision 10 years ago but appears a bit shaddy
these days where better designed languages exist with equal power and
far more clean APIs.