When talking to the uninitiated I usually describe what I am using long before I state its name. I use terms such as rapid application development environment, XML, J2EE-compliant (soon), develop/deploy on any platform, etc, etc. I also state that it is one of the many solutions out there with functionality similar to ASP/CF, with the primary difference being the time, and hence the cost, of development. I also tell them I am perfectly willing to develop on whatever platform they want as long as they are willing to pay me.
Chris > Thanks Scott > > Excellent page. > > I didn't realize I was opening up Pandora's box with this thread. I > can see everyone's point fairly clearly. But the brunt of the > situation with myself and my company is the fact that... yes we have > lost jobs over the type of development used. And yes, I had a major > client of mine spend a year with several (minimum of 3, somtimes 5) > developers that took all the work I did on their site and switched it > to .NET. I bet they spent several hundred thousand dollars doing this > switch. When I asked management why, I was told that the IT > department said Witango was dead; the IT department did not > understand Witango nor were they even willing to learn (they were all > young kids fresh out of school); they couldn't find local developers > that were willing to consult using Witango except for myself; they > spent $25,000 on T4. > > What really ticks me off is the fact that they took my logic on how > the site was layed out and worked it to .NET. The site was a portal > to sell their products through other affiliates. It had 181 > affiliates when I left and probably has a lot more now. All the html > tags, metetags and style sheets were stored in SQL and called from an > affiliate ID. As far as I know, the SQL never changed, just the front > end to access the info. So really it was 181 separate websites with > different fonts, colors, art, buttons, phone numbers, addresses, etc. > > well ... I thought it was nifty :) > > Sorry, I digress... > > Anyway, the facts of the matter for me is that I can understand the > Witangoers beating their drums for the product, heck, I got a big > stick that I bang too. But most of the people I have to convince in > using my services are usually illiterate when it comes to development > and they need some sort of comfort level or I am going to miss out on > the job. Competition is very fierce here (Minneapolis) and 80% of all > developers seem to be using Micr$oft. and if not Micro$oft, Cold > Fusion. So a manager who makes the decisions will ask someone in > their company (usually an IT guy) about Witango and they will get "I > never heard of it" but asked about XML they will be good to go. > > Sorry these are the facts of life for me. > >> >> >> I might be going out on a limb, but maybe this is what you were looking for: >> >> http://xml-extra.net/webpage.xmlx?node=84 >> ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
