Wow, thanks for the feedback. I should have been more clear as to what I meant by "High Risk". I'm not concerned so much with Lift's technical merit, but rather the risk of personnel. If I get hit by the "proverbial bus" then my client/ employer will have a difficult time completing/maintaining the project due to skill set alone.
I agree with the points about infrastructure and Scala/Lift's cross- platform capabilities. I would not use it otherwise. I also agree that Lift rocks and is a viable alternative to traditional Java approaches. That being said. I do have my client's best interest in mind and I think using Scala and Lift is somewhat selfish on my part. I guess I'll have to be on the lookout for buses :-) On Oct 22, 7:10 am, Tim Perrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
