You're absolutely right about this, more importantly that IT manglement tends to be really impressed by that. It doesn't seem to matter how many advantages I espouse to my managers here, nothing convinces them more quickly than "Company X uses mod_perl." Kinda like they're not willing to come up with their own decisions :)
I find that "We used ____ at eToys" works far better than reasons *why* we used it. You know you're going to have a bad day when you see the sun come up. Over the curb. ------------ Brian Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Stas Bekman wrote: > As I was leaving Vegas I saw that billboard saying: > > Adidas > uses > SAP > > And I suppose that they run a bunch of similar ads using other big > companies names. I think this is an interesting approach of advertising, > where instead of advertising the merits of your product or going down on > your competitors, you use a concrete example of a well known company > that uses your software. > > So I thought to myself that in addition to our collection of: > http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/sites.html > http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/success_stories/index.html > it'd be interesting to add some small ads similar to the ones used by > SAP, though on the left menu bar at perl.apache.org, rather than > billboards. e.g. > > "TicketMaster uses mod_perl" > "InternetMovieDatabase uses mod_perl" > "Slashdot uses mod_perl" > etc. > > Of course if folks are willing to put them on their sites, that would be > great too. But my point here is that when an IT person comes to > perl.apache.org but who is still not convinced that mod_perl is > something that he wants, this kind of local ads can help to make the > right decision :) > > I guess a simple ImageMagic/GD script that glues the name on the > prepared base and doing some color alternation will do the work of > making several such ads without manual labour. And then we can randomly > spread these at the perl.apache.org pages. Of course it'd be cool to use > SVG, but unfortunately we are a long way before major browsers will > support it and having users having these newer browsers :( > > __________________________________________________________________ > Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker > http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com > http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com > >
