Marnen, again, thanks for the input. On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > How can business people make any reasonable tech decisions if they dont have technical knowledge? The challenge facing most small/medium sized companies with no in house IT staff, (outsourcing all work to development houses with excellent sales teams) is the problem of choosing who to trust. Very few contractors (at least in this country) deliver products viable in the long term. > > > 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? ;) > > Just saying, some developers are so set in their ways they don't consider the best tool for the job. They use the tool they know best. > (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? > > Ever had the misfortune of inheriting a antique Perl or PHP or ASP system? Nuf said. > > > > 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.) > > MS developers are a dime a dozen. (at least here they are). Hell, I can get a Senior Dev C# job tmrw, even though I have not used MS technology in about 4 years. In fact, I got a call from an agent just the other day... maybe it's just my location. > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > > -- 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.
