On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:43:24PM +0000, Michael Havard wrote:
Maybe we're looking at this from the wrong direction. Maybe the best way to leverage those skills and toolsets is in the area of interoperation instead of porting the whole shebang from trendy platform to trendy platform.
For example lets say on my team I have 1 python, 6 java, and 2 .net people. I could use the python guy to create a product that communicated with a larger product created by the 6 java developers that used some other component created by the .net people.
how did you know? :) Actually in my group we've got 1 python/zope/cmf guy (me), 1 lotus/domino guy, and 6 java developers. There is no .NET here. Of course we sometimes argue over which system should handle which task, and of course i think we should be doing a lot more python / zope, but in general we do pretty well with this hybrid setup. Zope's role is mostly handling presentation and content management, and most of the apps are database-driven jsp. BTW, we don't use any xmlrpc or web services, it's all just server A getting an http stream from server B and doing something with it. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's PRESIDENT MONKEY! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)