more python evangelising...

[Erik Ableson]

Just to confuse things:

We are talking about MS - and they're more interested in making money in
training packages, ms certification programs, etc.  It stands to reason that
they have no interest in an open source product that they don't have the
ability to change arbitrarily to ensure that everyone in the corporate world
is sent on MS Certified retraining courses.

An open source product with a solid user base is of no interest to them
since they can't control and brand the add on services.  As always these
decisions are business decisions and in no way related to the relative
technical merits of a product :)

Cheers,

Erik Ableson

> From: Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au>
> Reply-To: anthony at interlink.com.au
> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:06:57 +1000
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: more python evangelising...
> 
> And an even more cunning route was at hand, as the redoubtable maintainer
> of the Java site Cafe Au Lait, Rusty Harold Elliot points out. Elliot,
> a long time critic of Sun's licensing tactics, notes: "If Microsoft
> wanted to really challenge Java, they should have gone with Python. I
> just don't believe it's possible for any major advances in language
> design to be made while restricting oneself to the mistakes Kernighan
> and Ritchie made 30 years ago."
> 
> Well, quite. The open source language Python has not only proven itself
> macho enough in heavy duty production environment, it's simple enough
> to be taught as a first language to kids. And it's interfaced with COM
> interface for several years now. Maybe someone in Redmond thought it
> was time to unleash some "innovation" at the world, and cometh the hour,
> cometh the new programming language.