Cal, You are so right. I've always taken it as a rule of thumb that the bigger a corporation is, the bigger and bloated their software is. It's gotten to the point where I won't touch jobs with a ten foot pole whose companies are built upon Microsoft products.
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote: > Interesting. See, when I compared Zope to Django, I found Django's extensive > documentation and feature set to be perfect for prototyping, and then > optimizing bottlenecks at a later date, either via C extensions, raw SQL > replacement etc. However, as 'cliché' as this may sound, most large > enterprises tend to steer towards the most complicated, most bloated, most > difficult to use "technologies" there are around. Take Microsoft CRM, Java > and *anything* RHEL based as a clear example (others may disagree, this is > just my opinion as I'm a hard headed debian/python guy ;p) > (the above is just my > > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Mike Seidle <m...@seidle.net> wrote: >> >> On Thursday, February 03, 2011 08:02:43 pm Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media >> Ltd] >> wrote: >> > May I ask, how well did you get along with Zope? From what I can tell, >> > Django is suited for SME, where as Zope is the kinda thing that banks >> > would >> > be using etc. >> >> Cal - >> >> I just used Django to write a credit card processing application (as in >> internet gateway w/API for third party sites). Zope would have simply >> been >> way to heavy to handle the transaction load, and frankly, most financial >> applications fit the RDBMS model much better than the object database >> model. >> >> On the SME/Enterprise statement: Just because a software package is not >> complicated does not mean that it does not fit in the enterprise space. >> I've >> found that often the more simple a tool is the *better it fits* in large >> organizations. >> >> Mike >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@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-users@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-users@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.
