[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stas Bekman) writes:
[...]
> Some companies go even further, they hire these super experts to
> develop the open source technologies and they know that when they
> need something that's not available in the used technology, it'll be
> added on the same day when needed, since the experts are in
> house. You don't have to go far away, ActiveState and Covalent do
> this *very* successfully.
Eh, that's different. What they do _is_ improving the technology and
selling it improved more than use the technology to do something else.
[...]
> If you have at least one engineer or SA in the company who knows
> Perl, he can use his wits to try to shift the company toward
> Perl. Now what happens if the company has no people who know Perl?
>
> It's not that they don't like Perl, or they think it's not a viable
> solution. It's that they don't know that Perl exists!
Well, I hope they won't use Perl because that would be an awful fit
and if anything just make it really hard for the poor new programmer
wanting to use Perl for another project later.
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