On the Django homepage, there are a few big sites mentioned that use Django.
lawrence.com washingtonpost.com EveryBlock LJWorld.com Tabblo Toronto Life A lot more can probably be found on djangosites.org. I also would tell him that Google endorses Django, for example by shipping it with App Engine and using it for Rietveld themselves. bitbucket.org is also done with Django, and is a very good example of what's possible with it in my opinion. You can find some more sites and arguments pro Django here: http://www.slideshare.net/pydanny/why-django And some more arguments pro Django here: http://www.slideshare.net/idangazit/why-django-3000105 One big .net based site is stackoverflow, IIRC. Best Regards, Jesaja Everling On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Eric Chamberlain <e...@rf.com> wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:40 AM, Joe Goldthwaite wrote: > > 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. > > Do you have any examples of large systems written in .Net? > Amazon, Google, Facebook, twitter, et al. are not using .Net. > -- > Eric Chamberlain > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.