taking python enterprise level?...

[Tim Chase]

simn_stv wrote:
> i plan to build an application, a network based application that i
> estimate (and seriously hope) would get as many as 100, 000 hits a day
> (hehe,...my dad always told me to 'AIM HIGH' ;0), not some 'facebook'
> or anything like it, its mainly for a financial transactions which
> gets pretty busy...
> so my question is this would anyone have anything that would make
> python a little less of a serious candidate (cos it already is) and
> the options may be to use some other languages (maybe java, C (oh
> God))...i am into a bit of php and building API's in php would not be
> the hard part, what i am concerned about is scalability and
> efficiency, well, as far as the 'core' is concerned.

Python is as "enterprise" as the developer who wields it.

Scalability revolves entirely around application design & 
implementation.  Or you could use Erlang (or haskell, etc ;-)

-tkc