Julio, > Sure there is hope. > > I haven't found any website that couldn't be made with Django. After > all, it's about HTTP communication. There are even two websites that > deal with price comparison in the wiki > (http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoPoweredSites): > > http://www.gutata.com/ and http://niftylist.co.uk/
Thanks for those, I had missed them. > But I believe none can answer your question besides yourself. Are > you sure you can code in Python this C# specific code that you have? > Does your database serves others apps which you'll have to modify? And > what's a small website or a large one? I've seen Django powering > social networks with more than one million members, but what's the > load? Does it use cache? Does the DBA knows what she do? All interesting and meaningful questions that I'm trying to answer myself. Over the weekend I fetched all our C# code from SVN, and started the 'migration', so to speak, to my Kubuntu laptop. As I thought, the biggest monster to tackle would be the database. A 6GB+ behemoth of MSSQL2K goodies is not something you could call a piece of cake. But the experience of removing so much cruft from the 'templates' (or aspx files) was almost rapturous. I'm more and more convinced I can do with the Python code for the views and such, but the database would have to remain in place as it is: hundreds of stored procedures, a huge, mission-critical DTS process running every day, etc preclude me from going the fundamentalist way and migrate everything away to Postgres :-) Say, if I can successfully introspect my DB into Django models (as much as possible, I don't expect magic here), I could technically use Django just for the Front End's views, right? (initially I'd keep our own admin, since it's the primary interface for our dataentry people). What do you people say? How would Django running on Windows/IIS6 (now it's possible, I hear), talking to a MSSQL database, and being used 'just' for the frontend's views sound to you? =) > If you're confident you can do whatever you do in Django, I say go for it. That's the thing -- I'm getting very hooked on Django and by extension, Python. It just makes too much sense to let it go. Myself I started coding webpages by hand back in '96, with CGI (bash), Perl, PHP, and then ASP (because of market share), and finally I've been forced to work in ASP.NET for the last 3 years or so. Don't get me wrong, I prefer C# over VBScript any day, but I was longing for the same feeling I got when I first got a whiff of Perl back in the day -- and Python did *just* that. Anyways, thanks for everything, obrigado, etc. Best regards, -- Carlos Yoder http://blog.argentinaslovenia.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
