C++ (Wt xor CppCMS) WOOT!
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Tim Bradshaw <t...@tfeb.org> wrote: > On 2011-08-02 15:41:06 +0100, ccc31807 said: > >> >> Most of these are tech companies. Tech companies are very important, >> but so are other kinds of companies. What do manufacturing companies >> use, like Ford and Toyota, energy companies like BP and Exxon, >> pharmaceutical companies, consumer product companies, and so on? What >> about the big retailers, Sears, WalMart, Target, etc.? > > A more important metric is how critical the web presence is to the company. > For Amazon, say, it's pretty critical, so what they do is likely to be > interesting: if their site is broken they're not making any money. For > Toyota, say, well, an outage would probably be embarrassing, but it's not > anything like as critical to them. > > Unfortunatly I suspect that with web stuff as with other stuff, the answer > is that it entirely depends. I am endlessly horrified by the poor state of > software that is really critical to large companies. > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
