Interesting thread. Having done both emplyed work and freelance consultancy I agree totally with Marius in sense that selling in the idea of XYZ technology to enterprise is one of the most difficult things we face, as there are some very deep set processes in the enterprise environment (Microsoft, SAP et al) and a lot of reluctancy to touch OSS in general.
Companies usually tackle this in one of two ways: 1) Outsource the entire project to a 3rd party (dev, hosting etc) so then they just need it to work and fulfil the spec and not worry about organizational issues that may hinder the implementation of XYZ technology in there business. A classic of this is Ruby... it runs like crap on windows, and like it or not, M$ have a massive market share of infrastructure and deployment hardware in the enterprise environment so outsourcing the implementation and deployment makes sense and the organization still get quicker ROI of the shorter dev time. 2) A drawn out internal wrangle / argument that is costly in both time and finances One of the nice things about Lift is that it runs on standard java web infrastructure so there is no extra stuff needed for deployment. It runs on the JVM so its easily cross-platform - i have lift apps running on OSX for Dev, windows and linux for deployment. Lift really does rock - the bottom line right now is that its not yet at 1.0, but rails had a pretty-widespread take-up between 0.9 and 1.2; I see the same pattern happening here. A great feature set, pragmatic design, and some awesome modules right out of the box. There will always be people who want to use what they know (otherwise we'd have killed off perl years ago), but there are an equal number of people (and therefore companies) who want to explore the edgy new technology. IMO, its about having balance in your toolset. Cheers Tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
