Stas Bekman [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>
*>Do you prefer to develop your company around some technology that you
*>can hire SA in hundreds, but at some point you will realize that you
*>cannot do things that you want?
As diplomatically as possible I'd like to offer that the onus is not
completely on the SA :) Even with the most expert mod_perl tuning SA you
can still go awry if the applications underneath it aren't up to snuff.
*>The problem, or probably a better word: the misadvantage of Perl is that
*>it doesn't have a corporate body behind it to do the brain-washing, Sun,
*>MS and others do. Note that I'm talking only about the advocacy here,
*>and not the language itself.
I'd like to think I'm less a victim of Sun's brainwashing and just someone
who continues to buy a product that works well for things I need them to
work for :) As much as I twitch at the phrase 'Enterprise Solutions' it
means something to corporations who can purchase 'solutions' that include
support. A lot of business gets done via word of mouth. I don't think very
many people buy products just on the quality of the advertisements,
especially in this economy where getting any expenditure approved is
tough. Personal recommendation is the most powerful advertisement of all
yet, out of more than 10k systems where I used to work, I'd say only 10 or
15 of the customers ran apache.
I'm not convinced that a lack of advertising money is the reason why Perl
isn't as popular as Java or MS products.
e.
