On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Selena Sol wrote:
> > Stas said:
> > So here I'm shifting from my suggestion of finding the Big Company into
> > making these Big Companies admit that they use Perl. Does it seem like a
> > better idea?
>
> I think "client successs stories" is an important part of marketing any
> technology. However, why would a big company want to bother? Companies are
> pretty conservative.
see my other post: this can work out if the company gets some added value
from the Perl community. Approach the company and help their Perl people
to be more productive by using CPAN and such, and voila the company has an
interest in giving back. Of course that's my rewishful thinking.
BTW, http://www.perl.com/ used to have a 'success stories' column but it's
not on the surface anymore, you have to search for it. If you don't know
that it exists, you won't search for it. IMHO, it should be in a visible
place and encourage people to post more stories. Nat?
> I can tell you that SUN has programs that will pay companies up to
> 300,000 USD for project funding if those companies "go public". Even
> with this, many companies still don't want to do it.
wow :)
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