Re: Django in the enterprise?

@Philip

Thanks for information -- very good advice. I appreciate all the input from everyone else as well. I intend to start using Django for almost everything going forward.

Thanks,
Steve

On Feb 24, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Phlip wrote:

> Steven Elliott Jr wrote:
>
>> Right now we have Java and ASP.NET doing most of the work for us but the systems are old and need updating. Not to mention budgetary constraints are big thing now. I used Django to write an intranet application and it was very nice and I think I can probably handle the other stuff, just wanted to draw on other's experience.
>
> Those tools are clunky and hard to program, driving up the cost of
> maintenance. Consider this pattern:
>
> http://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerApplication.html
>
> Each time someone requests a new feature, do it in Django instead, and
> link it to the old system. (And use TDD to write it all.)
>
> Eventually a new system will emerge, completely obscuring the old one.
>
> And, yes, Django can do webservices and such, just like platforms with
> much bigger advertising budgets.
>
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