Re: Django in the enterprise?

On Feb 24, 2010, at 6:23 AM, Steven Elliott Jr wrote:

Dear friends,

I apologize for writing this type of question to the community but I would appreciate any information you could pass on considering the breadth of knowledge within this group. 

I know that the word "enterprise" gives some people the creeps, but I am curious to know if anyone has experience creating enterprise applications, similar to something like say… Java EE applications, which are highly concurrent, distributed applications with Django? I know Java has its own issues but its kind of viewed as THE enterprise framework and I think that's unfortunate.

Some people say that Rails is a good replacement for Java EE but what about Django? Has anyone ever used it in this context? You only ever see pretty standard websites on djangosites.org and it seems like its capable of so much more. I am planning on scrapping some of our old systems which are written mostly on ASP.NET and some Java for something more easily maintainable. I started using Django for some other applications and find it to be fantastic for what I am using it for (Corporate news, intranet, etc.) internally but what about something like… an accounts receivable system, or a billing system, etc. 

I would hate to see a framework such as this pigeon-holed into a category it doesn't need to be. It seems to be used for social media/networking, content-heavy sites, not so much data processing, etc. I feel that it has all the elements needed to start down this path. Anyone have any thoughts?

The term "enterprise", is pretty loaded.  I've managed some really shitty "enterprise" apps, like Peoplesoft and Siebel CRM.

Django can definitely do more than serve up websites.  We use django to run our call routing infrastructure.  

Our main app does have a mobile web interface for making calls, but the backend telephony servers also communicate with Django via web services.  Django does all the call routing logic.

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