RE: RE: perl as a selling point

I agree with you cianoz, but not with your choice of the word "easy." For a big ecommerce site, the build vs. buy thing usually isn't about cost... "rolling our own" could mean a team of 3 or 4 engineers for 3 or 4 months... 3/4 of an web wizard FTE isn't cheap or easy... and then there's ongoing maintenance... no matter how you do it, it never turns our cheap or easy....

The question isn't "Which is easiest", but rather "Which causes the least pain and agony"...
:)

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RE: RE: RE: perl as a selling point by Malkavian (Friar) on Nov 01, 2000 at 22:21 UTC
I honestly believe that you can do most things with freely available software. Where I work, we have one guy doing e-commerce dev work using a freely available e-commerce app. Check out: Interchange. This seems to cover most needs. As for cost, you'll need one person working on it, maybe two.. And it scales very nicely thank you.. :) And to add to the bonus, it's GPL! Malk.	[reply]
RE: RE: RE: perl as a selling point by little (Curate) on Nov 01, 2000 at 22:15 UTC
"well, that depends on..." the problem is not only that you get a solution, but also to make that fit to your needs. So whether your own programmers do these modifications while using modules or other scripts or somebody elses ones do, you woun't get rid of the needs to add to it, to maintain it, to always develope it further. There it seems to be a greta advantage to get an solution first that is open to these modifications. Well with perl it is. But these salesmen wan't to sell a product, ok sometimes also service, but thats a minority I guess. And while selling a product doesn't imply do give out carbon copies of the construction plan I think thats with most other things as they change know, it's got to be approved that you can still can live from your work, even though in another way than just putting it to the shelf in the store. :-) Have a nice day All decision is left to your taste	[reply]