When I say "enterprise" I do not mean "large businesses", I rather mean "businesses and non profit organizations" that use computers and follow a more or less professional software development cycles.
I agree with you that small businesses are more profitable and a better market for web2py than large enterprises. Massimo On Jun 3, 9:07 pm, JohnMc <maruadventu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Massimo, > > Following Horst's observations from a different angle. > > 1) Don't worry about whether Web2Py is 'Enterprise Ready'. That is > Tech Press/Vendor Spiel to create marketshare with appeal. Its verbal > junk. Go take a look at table 2a > --http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/smallbus.html > . The tally of firms <100 employees to those >100 outrank them 10x. > > The number of firms with budgets that support $1m+ software projects > is less than 20k. There are probably 100 'Enterprise Providers' (eg > Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle) chasing that small field. So when I hear > a programmer state they do 'Enterprise level production development' > like some badge, Django or otherwise they too are chasing that small > field of money. Most likely as a member of one of those 'Enterprise > Providers'. > > 2) The opportunity is in that <100 employee range. Those firms rarely > have million dollar budgets. Nor do they typically have the budgets to > buy WebSphere platforms or SAP software. But their need is just as > great for specialized software. > > Better to cater to the smaller firms who would benefit from web2py. It > is just as important to be able to be profitable in the small scale as > the large. Fact more so. > > That Web2Py can scale is the icing on the cake. > > JohnMc > > On Jun 3, 7:30 pm, Horst Herb <my.list.subscripti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:19 AM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > because those people are influential people in the Django community, > > > the same people posting negative comments about web2py everywhere. > > > I am not sure whether such comments matter. > > People seriously using such development tools will have a good look > > before they embark on an expensive journey anyway, and I think in that > > regard web2py has a lot going for it apart from the lack of usable > > up-to-date documentation > > > Let's get good apps out, that will spread more good word about the > > tools we use than any silly comments on time wasting web sites > > > I for my part can vouch that so far development with web2py has been > > - a bit faster than with RoR > > - far more legible code than with RoR > > - I managed to hire 4 good people so far to to web2py work for me. > > They seem all competent, and so far have delivered in time and to > > specs. No exemption so far, and that's a quite unique experience for > > me (when developing a similar project with RoR I had hundreds of > > applicants but in the end nobody delivered in tiome and to specs and > > it turned into a financial nightmare until the whole project was > > shelved) > > > This weekend I am going to present the first version of my medical web > > app (pre alpha, but seemingly functional) at a medical conference. If > > acceptance is good and no major hickups during demo (when lots of > > doctors are going to hammer it all at the same time) we'll go public > > with the project. I am then happy to give a testimony on theweb2py web > > site of our experience so far, including the exceptional experience of > > being able to easily hire good competent developers familiar with > > web2py, as well as the incredible responsiveness and helpfulness of > > this list with a very low signal:noise ratio > > > Horst > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
