[Seaside] Convincing Web Application shops to use seaside

[Nevin Pratt]

Keith P. Hodges wrote:

> All,
>
> I have started a wiki page called "Promoting Seaside" 
> http://swiki.squeakfoundation.org/sea/88
> the idea being to promote the whole squeak-commanche-seaside package 
> to be adopted in commercial web application environments.
>
> For example - we know that squeak runs on all platforms, but others 
> looking at seaside for the first time do not.
>
> I am not saying we are at that stage yet, but will there come a time 
> soon when we have a "standard" Squeak Image for developing web 
> applications - stripped of eToys and Alice in Wonderland etc etc and 
> loaded with database drivers, commanche, OSProcess, soap, xml, object 
> serialisation etc etc. Something we could genuinely had over to a 
> "design shop" and say "developing web applications is easy with this".
>
> thoughts anyone
>
> Keith


Tool selection seems to always be a political decision in companies 
(commonly decided by mid-managers), rather than a technical one (decided 
by someone--anyone--with a genuine tech background).

But to help the politics:

Obviously the portability of Squeak across hardware is a plus.

But another thing that I think many corporate types would view as 
important is the fact that the Seaside framework itself is available on 
multiple dialects.  They will perceive this as reducing their risk 
(although I personally just care about the Squeak port).

Our Bountiful Baby site can also be used as an example of a commercial 
Seaside site.  I'd like to see others listed as well.

-- 
Nevin Pratt
Bountiful Baby
http://www.bountifulbaby.com
(801) 992-3137