I don't see anything listed that would eliminate Python. You may want to take a quick look at some of the rather large applications that have been done with Zope (written in Python). Zope might even be a good application platform to build upon (can't say for sure, not enough detail about application). Even if you don't want to use all of Zope the ZODB is a well tested persistent Python object store that might prove helpful.
There are many other projects supporting WAY more than 200 users that are written in Python. -Larry Bates john67 wrote: > The company I work for is about to embark on developing a commercial > application that will cost us tens-of-millions to develop. When all is > said and done it will have thousands of business objects/classes, some > of which will have hundreds-of-thousands of instances stored in a DB. > Our clients will probably have somewhere between 50-200 users working > on the app during the day, possibly in mutiple offices, and then a > large number of batch processes will have to run each night. It will > also need to have a web interface for certain users. It needs to be > robust, easy to maintain, and able to be customized for each client. > > Right now it looks like Java is the language of choice that the app > will be developed in. However, I have been looking and reading a lot > about Python recently and it seems to me that Python could handle it. > The big attraction to me is the developer productivity. It seems that > if Python can handle it, then we could gain a huge savings by using > Python instead of Java from a productivity standpoint alone. > > So, given the very general requirements in the first paragraph, do you > think that Python could handle it? If anyone has direct experience > developing large apps in Python, I would appreciate your insight. > Based on the responses I get, I am planning on writing a proposal to my > management to consider Python instead of Java. > > Thanks, > John > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
