I've been working for a startup for a month or so. The main guy is enthusiastic about technology. He probably runs more applications on his computer than anyone I know. He also switched from a Windows background to a Mac notebook a year ago. He doesn't know a lot about web development or how it all works. That's what I've been helping with.
He's interviewed a number of companies trying to find a good one to develop version1 of the application. I've been pushing him towards Linux/Python/Django and thought I had him convinced. The company he's thinking about going with is a .net shop. They say they can do anything but the bulk of their developers are .net. Still, he was thinking about going with this company but still having them develop in Django. This morning we had a conference call with one of the references the development company provided. It turns out they're a startup that's working on a different application in the same industry as us so there was an affinity there. The guy mentioned that they originally started with a different company using Ruby on Rails. He said that after the other company got bogged down and wasn't making progress, he switched to the new company that we're considering. He said that they got the project back on track and organized but ended up running into lots of problems with Rails. They talked it over and decided to rewrite everything in .net. Now he's happy with the progress and feels like .net is a superior platform and is allowing him to develop his program at a lower total cost. This has my boss worried. Most of the people he's been talking to are from large companies. One of them was even a high end Microsoft person. I think he's starting to think that the Microsoft technology stack might be the safer choice. He wants to get to the point of having millions of users and is worried that Django wont cut it. I'm also worried that if he does stick with Django, the development company might blame any setbacks on Django and push for a rewrite in .net. I'd like examples of large systems written in Django or other open source frameworks. I'd also like stories about companies who tried .net switched over to open source. It seems like there was a big Microsoft project on some stock exchange program that failed but I can't find any references to it. I tried searching Google but it seems like it doesn't differentiate ".net" with the internet so trying to find .net failures only turned up stories about internet downtime. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
