This is moderately off-topic, but it does relate to the continued use of TT in my agency.
Short version: I'm in a communiciations dept doing web work. We have a very happy apache/perl/TT/CGI-App solution that is going well. The IS dept has determined that the agency should switch to a Web Services configuration for all their mainframe work, and has swept "all dynamic web pages" into it's fold. They are looking at a websphere J2EE direct-to-user setup. I'm arguing that websphere is better left as a backend, and our perl programs can speak SOAP with it. The IS dept currently has no Websphere or Java staff, but they're about to lay down the law with regard to future application development. Despite the lack of trained staff, they are using the fact that "other agencies use websphere" as a point for their side. I'd love to prove that websphere is best used with an interface layer provided by something else (in our case, our exisitng perl-based system). I've got the list of prominant TT users recently discussed, but are there any Websphere-backend/Perl-frontend that I can point to? Unless it has more TT-related content, please respond off-list. Thanks in advance.
