"Dave S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > They will be concerned about using my app because I am one person. > What if I > get hit by a bus ! what if I leave ?
This is a common problem in big companies including my own. For years they wouldn't even use the GNU software because it was "unsupported". I even had to buy a commercial version of emacs for about $300... Eventually cygnus started offering support (for $5K per year) and they allowed us to use emacs, gcc etc Eventually even X windows. Now they are more relaxed and we use Linux to run our internal DHCP and DNS, even some web servers... > ...(It appears that none of the > company's IT professionals can program !) That's also not unusual. In fact our company appears to be slowly heading that way. We used to have 11,000 IT professionals of which around 5000 were developers. Now we have 13,000 IT professionals of whom about 1000 still write code. The coding is mainly offshored to India and Eastern Europe. Our internal people are being retrained on "higher value" roles like business analysis, design/architecture, deployment/integration and project management. So I now program in python as and when I can and call it prototyping... They call it progress. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
