Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo as a platform for a large E-Commerce website

2013-08-19 Thread S Krish
Let me start with this note: "Asking a Pharo Group what fits best for a good commercial solution is like asking an hungry person whether he would like to go for a feast.." Most certainly the answer should be a resounding yes from this group. You should. Now if you are asking if there are alterna

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo as a platform for a large E-Commerce website

2013-08-19 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
Hi, sorry for the very delayed answer :) Some years ago I made a massive ecommerce, it was developed on pharo and deployed on gemstone. that works pretty well and you have infinite scaling. now, you could do the same with pharo + some db backend (I'd recommend mongo) + a load balancing stra

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo as a platform for a large E-Commerce website

2013-08-06 Thread Cameron Sanders
Are you definitely going the smalltalk path and your question is Which One platform? Or are you not yet committed to smalltalk? If you go with Pharo, you may be able to migrate to something like Gemstone should the need arise. Or to one of the other flavors. - I recently interviewed a kid with Co

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo as a platform for a large E-Commerce website

2013-08-04 Thread Stephan Eggermont
Sanjay wrote: >Possibly the above details are sketchy but the immediate questions for him >to firm up investment plans are: >- Will a Pharo based platform be appropriate > -- Technology ? > -- Robustness & support ? Nothing you indicated in your estimates would be a bad fit for Pharo. Strong po

[Pharo-users] Pharo as a platform for a large E-Commerce website

2013-08-02 Thread sminni
Hi, One of my friends is moving forward on a very serious e-commerce portal (startup). Just as an example / illustration - something like say any of the typical largest online shopping stores Initial estimates are typically average peak #no of reco