Massimo, Following Horst's observations from a different angle.
1) Don't worry about whether Web2Py is 'Enterprise Ready'. That is Tech Press/Vendor Spiel to create marketshare with appeal. Its verbal junk. Go take a look at table 2a -- http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/smallbus.html . The tally of firms <100 employees to those >100 outrank them 10x. The number of firms with budgets that support $1m+ software projects is less than 20k. There are probably 100 'Enterprise Providers' (eg Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle) chasing that small field. So when I hear a programmer state they do 'Enterprise level production development' like some badge, Django or otherwise they too are chasing that small field of money. Most likely as a member of one of those 'Enterprise Providers'. 2) The opportunity is in that <100 employee range. Those firms rarely have million dollar budgets. Nor do they typically have the budgets to buy WebSphere platforms or SAP software. But their need is just as great for specialized software. Better to cater to the smaller firms who would benefit from web2py. It is just as important to be able to be profitable in the small scale as the large. Fact more so. That Web2Py can scale is the icing on the cake. JohnMc On Jun 3, 7:30 pm, Horst Herb <my.list.subscripti...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:19 AM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > because those people are influential people in the Django community, > > the same people posting negative comments about web2py everywhere. > > I am not sure whether such comments matter. > People seriously using such development tools will have a good look > before they embark on an expensive journey anyway, and I think in that > regard web2py has a lot going for it apart from the lack of usable > up-to-date documentation > > Let's get good apps out, that will spread more good word about the > tools we use than any silly comments on time wasting web sites > > I for my part can vouch that so far development with web2py has been > - a bit faster than with RoR > - far more legible code than with RoR > - I managed to hire 4 good people so far to to web2py work for me. > They seem all competent, and so far have delivered in time and to > specs. No exemption so far, and that's a quite unique experience for > me (when developing a similar project with RoR I had hundreds of > applicants but in the end nobody delivered in tiome and to specs and > it turned into a financial nightmare until the whole project was > shelved) > > This weekend I am going to present the first version of my medical web > app (pre alpha, but seemingly functional) at a medical conference. If > acceptance is good and no major hickups during demo (when lots of > doctors are going to hammer it all at the same time) we'll go public > with the project. I am then happy to give a testimony on theweb2py web > site of our experience so far, including the exceptional experience of > being able to easily hire good competent developers familiar with > web2py, as well as the incredible responsiveness and helpfulness of > this list with a very low signal:noise ratio > > Horst --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
