The good news is that the guy who hired ME picked web2py in the first place…
On Nov 29, 2010, at 13:51 , mdipierro wrote: > Some political considerations (which may be wrong and off topic and > improper)... > > Here is a problem with external consultants. They make more per hours > than the average employees. They get hired because of their specific > expertise to tell you what the boss wants to say but he prefers > somebody else to say (so he does not take the responsibility for > saying it). > > You cannot win this argument on technical merits. I would dismiss this > argument and point to Google as a scalability example and it is not > written in .net. I would address the real concern... you push web2py > therefore you are a single point of failure. If you leave who takes > care of this software? Not a problem with .net, they can always hire a > consultant. > > I would stress that using web2py is good for rapid prototyping and it > will allow the company to have a test product much sooner than > with .net and at much lower cost. Once the prototype is built you will > be in a better situation to assess whether web2py or .net is the best > tool for the job. If you start developing in .net you will have higher > startup costs and limited flexibility to change the specs. web2py code > is much more compact and readable than .net code and it will be easier > to train other people to work with it and learn how it works than > with .net. Tell them experts4solutions.com can sell them long term > support contracts and code review. > > The scalability bottle neck is the database. Offer something to the > consultant. .net uses mssql. If he claims mssql scales well for your > case, web2py will use mssql. > > If mssql does not scale well with web2py you have other options and do > not need to rewrite code. > > You can always reuse most of the design (html, js, css, images). > > Management costs. I am sure you can make the case it costs less to run > linux vps than windows ones (although I have no experience with the > latter). > > Massimo -- Lorin Rivers Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com> <mailto:lriv...@mosasaur.com> 512/203.3198 (m)
