Johan De Klerk wrote: > "Find a developer > you like, and let him choose (or at least have input into) the > technology." > > I disagree. > > Never let the developer dictate the technology. Choose whats right for > the > company in the short/medium and long term.
Right -- with significant input from the developer. Business people shouldn't be making tech decisions without technical input. The reverse is also true. > What if the company/client > gets > duped into using some guy that only develops in Erlang? If he's the best guy for the job, and if Erlang is a good tool for the job, what's wrong with that? Remember back in 2004 when these guys in Chicago began developing Web apps in a language no one had heard of outside Japan? ;) (FWIW, Facebook has some features written in Erlang.) > Yeah, ok, I dont > know many developers who do, but i've come across similar situations > before. What do you consider a similar situation? > > Why do so many big coporates choose Microsoft technology? Answer: The > availability of relatively cheap, fairly good, developers at a drop of a > hat. As I understand, MS developers are not cheap. Many of them are not that good either. :) I think in many cases, the choice of MS technologies is probably due to business people dictating technologies. (There's also the fact that lots of people don't know about anything non-MS.) Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] > > Just my 2 cents.... > > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> technology. >> >> > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
