great answer, and your comment about developing ERP in web2py says it all I am totally wowed how powerful it is I learned python when I started my college and every employer I talk to since was about Java or C# .NET etc and I totally neglected python until I was introduced to Django and now web2py thanks guys you all are doing a great job.
again thanks for the answer. On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Ross Peoples <[email protected]>wrote: > I haven't run web2py in a huge scalability setting before, but I know there > are a couple in the forum that have. I know that last weekend, the > web2py.com site had about 262,000 hits in one day, and I think that is > running on a small VPS.net instance (if I remember correctly). The > web2py.com site is actually running web2py, so that should say something. > The result of most of the scalability questions is that the database is > usually the thing that slows everything down (something that .NET developers > have to deal with as well). > > Web2py really wants you to use MVC. I've never used .NET MVC3, but I can > tell you that web2py makes a clear distinction of the MVC pattern by using > folder names that coincide with each part (models, views, controllers). The > main reason for big shops to use .NET is mostly the corporate backing of MS. > They offer these shops some incentives when they start out to get them > "hooked", then they charge through the nose after a while. > > I haven't used .NET for web development in quite a few years, so I can't > comment on its current state. What I can tell you is that I could not have > accomplished some of the things I have done with .NET, Java, Django, etc. > The only language/framework combination that gave me the power and > flexibility I needed was Python as web2py. > > As for the size of projects, there are quite a few (including myself) that > are developing ERP applications (if you don't know what those are, think of > the most complicated business application ever, ever that can basically run > an entire company by itself). I have also developed an appliance using > web2py that assists in the deployment and provisioning of servers. > > I think imagination is the only limitation here :) > -- *-Furqan Rauf* *Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first. -Prophet Muhammad * *http://www.amway.com/furqanrauf*
