On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:04:51 -0500, James Linden Rose, III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, February 25, 2005, at 08:28 AM, Tolkin, Steve wrote: > > > I think this is the best point that has been advanced in favor of using > > perl: > > "Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Morgan Stanley all use Perl in production ..." > > > > Does anyone have additional details, e.g. the names of the projects, > > number of servers, number of users, estimated cost, estimated savings > > by > > using perl, etc.
That kind of additional detail would usually be considered proprietary, and hence is unlikely to become public knowledge. > I think it mentioned in the book "eBoys" that the guy who founded Ebay > (Iranian guy whose name escapes me) wrote Ebay in Perl... and aside > from that, I wrote KanjiCafe.com's Ice Mocha in Perl as well (^_^). Pierre Omidyar. The same thing was described in "The Perfect Store." But when they needed to scale, they went to C++. So that's not a very good advertisement for Perl. However I've heard rumor that eBay recently aquired Rent.com, which apparently is written in Perl... Other well-known companies in the LA area who are using Perl in a big way include Ticketmaster and City Search. You can find more success stories at http://perl.oreilly.com/news/success_stories.html Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
