Re: Need some Help with Advocacy re: Java vs. Perl

[David H. Adler]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 01:44:01AM -0400, Turoff, Adam wrote:
> Do they like paying for third party libraries instead of
> using something like CPAN?

Sadly, I believe this may be true.  I would be far from surprised to
find that the PHBs actually believe ("Bought Software" == "Reliable
Software") [and, of course, that would return true in perl, but that's
just an accident of implementation... :-].

Unfortunately, I don't know that this is a perception that can be
fought, because they're not *actually* concerned with reliability, but
with having someone they can call in to be responsible when things go
wrong.

I think the advocacy war will have to be fought on different fronts.

dha

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