Success Stories

[Marc Slagle]

While the stories on the site are great, almost none of them make any 
mention of the financial success of the project.  They are very useful 
in showing other developers what mod_perl has to offer, but are 
difficult to use in convincing someone who only cares about "revenue 
generation."  If there is a way to go back and get the numbers on the 
total dollar value of the orders run through the EToys system, it would 
probably be a good bit of information to include.  I only mention the 
EToys article because I think most people would point to it as "the" 
example that they would want to use in a conversation with management on 
why mod_perl should be used.

I think that a lot of the time these stories are written by the 
programmers, who are much more interested in proving that the 
programming environment is superior (it is) than showing the financial 
gains made by switching over.  Perhaps a blurb reminding the author to 
include as much information on the money made/saved by their 
organization could be added to the bottom of the success story page 
where the instructions for posting are.

Marc Slagle
Online-Rewards
2900 Jefferson Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45219
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