[python-advocacy] Lifting the readership of The Python Papers

[Roy Smith]

On Jun 26, 2007, at 1:27 AM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:

> e) Businesses who might consider using Python

Maybe I'm splitting hairs here, but I can see this getting divided  
into two parts:

e1) Businesses who might consider using Python for internal projects
e2) Software development companies who are considering building  
products based on Python

These really are different decisions.  The first is a much easier  
(and less risky) decision.  "We've got a job to do, what's the best  
tool to do that job with?"  It's easy to find small pilot projects  
where you can prove the value of a tool.    At the end of every  
quarter, it has historically taken X weeks to wrap up some job.  You  
do it in two days.  The ROI is immediately obvious and it's easy to  
get buy-in to try to use this new tool on other, bigger, jobs.

The second is has a bit more psychology involved.  "If we use this  
tool to produce our product, what will our customers think about the  
product?" This is a much harder question to answer because you  
outcome won't be known for 6-12 months from the time the decision is  
made, and by then you're committed.


--
roy at panix.com

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