On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:35:25 -0500 Marc Slagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While the stories on the site are great, almost none of them make any > mention of the financial success of the project. They are very useful > > in showing other developers what mod_perl has to offer, but are > difficult to use in convincing someone who only cares about "revenue > generation." If there is a way to go back and get the numbers on the > total dollar value of the orders run through the EToys system, it > would probably be a good bit of information to include. I only > mention the EToys article because I think most people would point to > it as "the" example that they would want to use in a conversation with > management on why mod_perl should be used. > > I think that a lot of the time these stories are written by the > programmers, who are much more interested in proving that the > programming environment is superior (it is) than showing the financial > > gains made by switching over. Perhaps a blurb reminding the author to > > include as much information on the money made/saved by their > organization could be added to the bottom of the success story page > where the instructions for posting are. I've been thinking about writing a success story related to my day job. Years ago we wrote a mod_perl application that handles all our our cable modem provisioning (we're a cable ISP). Our system handles all of the current and future versions of the DOCSIS standard, runs on mod_perl/Apache/Postgresql, and has more features than the commercial offerings. Most of the commercial offerings that come close are in the $100k price range, ours cost $6k in in-house development labor. Granted I've got a kick butt mod_perl coder working for me, but it's still a nice success story with some numbers. I could also talk about all of the other projects we've done in ISP automation, news paper publishing, cable, telephone, and online publishing areas. Anyone think this is a bad idea? If not I'll get something worked up for the site in the next couple of weeks. --------------------------------- Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wiles.org --------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
