On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:14:12AM -0700, Charlie Blanchard wrote:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:39:56PM -0700, Mike Krohn wrote: [snipped excellent commentary for brevity...]
Finally, on buzzwords, I'd say go easy on Python. It scares people. Say Perl, say XML, say any other ML. Who cares what BroadVision is written in? Why should we care with Zope? (someone is going to hate that).
oh boy, gotta agree with Python being scary here. the ceo i'm going to have to convince [see earlier message near top of this thread] has a couple issues around Python specifically.
1. for all the reasons outlined in earlier posts, he knows very little about Python and so has no 'warm fuzzies' associated with it.
2. he is concerned about keeping his legacy programmers happy. to a certain degree. his issue is that if we are going to move them from the existing M$ shop that they now are (VB, Access, SQLserver) and that the staff will have to learn something different, he wants thier 'buy in' and feels that to do so they need to percieve value (to thier own future) in learning whatever new technology we move them to. so it boils down to, "Python? will it advance my career to learn it vs say Java or [fill in the blank with whatever here]?"
i'm facing an interesting challenge here. especially since this guy is already letting his staff know he's willing to pay more and allow a longer dev time if they pick a known (non oss) solution such as M$ or Java. in all the rhetoric about how much better a business decision it is to go open source, it's interesting to see first hand this perception from one who has to make a choice and put his money and business future on the line...
Ask if he is willing to let some of that extra money slip towards his "legacy staff". I suspect that doing so might encourage "buy in". As to java, yes, it might help their careers. It will definitely help his, provided he is judged by man-hours spent to do projects. Jim Penny
-- charlie blanchard http://baldguru.com/ LosAngeles area Zope Users Group http://lazug.org
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