Hi: My own experience as a small software company is that most of my customers don't ask for a specific technology, only are searching some sort of business solutions ( but almost the 95% of my customers are small companies also, without internal developers or with no more than 2 or 3). In this context, selling business solutions more than talk about the technology behind, I have no problems in introduce Pharo/Squeak/Dolphin applications. Cheers. 2010/11/27 Tudor Girba <tudor.girba@gmail.com>:
Hi,
I recently introduced Pharo in a small-medium software company (parametrix.ch). They use it for Moose (moosetechnology.org) to analyze their systems written in various languages and to introduce an assessment approach in their day to day development process (humane-assessment.com). A number of them are now learning to program in Pharo and Moose.
Cheers, Doru
On 26 Nov 2010, at 22:07, laurent laffont wrote:
Indeed I don't want a "how to integrate Pharo into enterprise", I want a "actually I have introduce Pharo in my enterprise and why; what works and what doesn't".
Laurent.
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:37 PM, <csrabak@bol.com.br> wrote: Em 26/11/2010 07:03, Mariano Martinez Peck < marianopeck@gmail.com > escreveu:
On  Thu,  Nov  25,   2010  at  10:40  PM,  laurent  laffont
<laurent.laffont@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I'm looking for feedback on  Pharo integration in enterprise.  Especially how you have managed  to put  Pharo in your  enterprise.  For example, I'm  involved in  web application development in other languages.  For functional  testing  I'm able  to script  Selenium using Pharo thanks  to WebTester.  So Pharo has  made a small step at my work.
 Just  show  them  the  diff  in  time/money  for  the  same development. (BTW, I don't have experience on that heheheh).
Mariano, trust me, I have twenty years of experience on this, and have to tell you: language or more generally the technology has a very small impact in the result you're after to show as 'proof' of supremacy for Pharo in the enterprise. . .
Processes, the skill level of the developers, the efficacy of management are much more important.
I will stay away of more hard discussions which would involve the statistical validation of the findings before one can trump any result as gun smoke.
Regards,
-- Cesar Rabak
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