Re: From ASP to Django

2008-06-19 Thread PFL
I had to make a similar argument at my job. You are going to have to convince people who are rightly skeptical, wont appreciate the all the core technological arguments, and really only care about time and cost. So, make a business case, not a technical case. Focus on: 1) tangible business bene

Re: From ASP to Django

2008-06-19 Thread Tim Chase
> boss care about the technology, as long as it works. They will > not pay for an upgrade of the back-end to newer technology, > unless I can back up this decision with valid points. So why > should they switch to something like Django? I can come up > with technological points, such as maintainab

Re: From ASP to Django

2008-06-19 Thread Dan
Microsoft ditched classic ASP. "It's unsupported" usually carries some weigth as an argument with bosses. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to dj

Re: From ASP to Django

2008-06-19 Thread Shane Emmons
ASP will cost more. Windows Servers are more expensive, not to mention the developer studio costs. What database backend are they using? If it is MS SQL then there is another large cost that could be removed by using Postgre or MySQL. Then just slip it to them that Google uses Python, not Microsoft

From ASP to Django

2008-06-19 Thread gnijholt
Ok I need some thoughts on the following. For a client, we need to redesign their website. The back-end was coded a couple of years ago in classic ASP. It's fairly complex, with a webshop, uploading and parsing of excel files with new collections of clothing, and stuff like that. It took people ab