On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 11:20 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote: > On May 21, 5:21 am, Deep_Feelings <doctore...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2- python is high productivity language : why there are no commercial > > programs written in python ? > There are a lot of commercial programs written in Python. But any > company which thinks it has a lock on some kind of super secret sauce > isn't going to use Python,
Is it [only] the aspect of being "sold" that makes software "commercial"? A better question would be is how many Python applications, in house or not, are used to facilitate commerce. Answer: a lot. I have an Open Source project with >100,000 lines of Python code [which I think qualifies as a 'real' application] <https://www.ohloh.net/p/coils/analyses/latest>. But that it is Open Source makes it non-commercial? I doubt anyone would use it outside of a commercial environment, and one of its principle goals is to serve as the backend for CRM systems [essentially commercial] and facilitate automation of business processes [essentially commercial]. The 'secret sauce' isn't the code [which is MIT licenses] but what you do with it. But since the framework is essentially general purpose - why not publish the code? I think of my Open Source code as "commercial". -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
