Hi: My own experience as a small software company is that most of my customers don't ask for a specific technology, only are searching some sort of business solutions ( but almost the 95% of my customers are small companies also, without internal developers or with no more than 2 or 3).
In this context, selling business solutions more than talk about the technology behind, I have no problems in introduce Pharo/Squeak/Dolphin applications. Cheers. 2010/11/27 Tudor Girba <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I recently introduced Pharo in a small-medium software company > (parametrix.ch). They use it for Moose (moosetechnology.org) to analyze their > systems written in various languages and to introduce an assessment approach > in their day to day development process (humane-assessment.com). A number of > them are now learning to program in Pharo and Moose. > > Cheers, > Doru > > > On 26 Nov 2010, at 22:07, laurent laffont wrote: > >> Indeed I don't want a "how to integrate Pharo into enterprise", I want a >> "actually I have introduce Pharo in my enterprise and why; what works and >> what doesn't". >> >> Laurent. >> >> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:37 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Em 26/11/2010 07:03, Mariano Martinez Peck < [email protected] > >> escreveu: >> >> > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:40 PM, laurent laffont >> > > <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, I'm looking for feedback on >> > > Pharo integration in enterprise. Especially how you have managed >> > > to put Pharo in your enterprise. For example, I'm involved in >> > > web application development in other >> > > languages. For functional testing I'm able to script Selenium >> > > using Pharo thanks to WebTester. So Pharo has made a small step >> > > at my work. >> > >> > >> > Just show them the diff in time/money for the same >> > development. (BTW, I don't have experience on that heheheh). >> >> Mariano, trust me, I have twenty years of experience on this, and have to >> tell you: language or more generally the technology has a very small >> impact in the result you're after to show as 'proof' of supremacy for >> Pharo in the enterprise. . . >> >> Processes, the skill level of the developers, the efficacy of management >> are much more important. >> >> I will stay away of more hard discussions which would involve the statistical >> validation of the findings before one can trump any result as gun smoke. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Cesar Rabak >> >> >> >> > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "If you interrupt the barber while he is cutting your hair, > you will end up with a messy haircut." > > >
