This is the never ending story of the cyclic (I'm being redundant) life cycle of many companies: R&D driven versus Marketing driver.
My belief is that none work as the trades do not attempt to reach the same goal: 1) R&D should not try to define products 2) Marketing should not try to impose the tools/means necessary to implement the products they have defined. I know that does not help flyingfred0 wrote: > A small software team (developers, leads and even the manager when he's > had time) has been using (wx)Python/PostgreSQL for over 2 years and > developed a successful 1.0 release of a client/server product. > > A marketing/product manager has brought in additional management and > "architecture" experts to propose moving the entire thing to a Java > (application server) platform for the next release. They want a > "scalable, enterprise solution" (though they don't really know what that > means) and are going crazy throwing around the Java buzzwords (not to > mention XML). > > The developers (including myself) are growing uneasy; the management is > continuing to push their requirements and ignore the engineers. I think > there's still hope, but I'm at a loss for ideas beyond pointing out the > success stories of Python and Zope and language comparisons between > Python and Java. > > What experiences have those in the Python community had in these kinds > of situations? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
