[marketing-python] marketing theory, needing a sales pitch...

[Todd Grimason]

* Lucio Torre [2005-03-30 13:44]:
> " Resolving Python's problems with web programming is *the* most 
> important thing we can do to market Python."
> 
> "This is an incredible missed opportunity for Python. Most other 
> marketing efforts underway for Python are (IMHO, of course) misplaced."
> 
> He doesnt seem to agree that what has to be done is not marketing :)
> 

I read it as saying the existence (after development) of a compelling
python solution is in itself marketing for python. Once such a beast
exists, the traditional "marketing" ("hyping" if you will) is less of an
issue.

And further, he's saying marketing other aspects or uses of Python,
which have much lower visibility are not the way to increase mindshare
and usage. A compelling web programming solution is a much bigger
megaphone than an excellent scientific or numerical anaylsis toolkit or
whatever. 

Note what Rails has done for Ruby - vastly increased people's awareness
of the language, and spawning upcoming books from the Pragmatic
Programmer crew as well as O'Reilly books written by authors well-known
in the Java world. Python is losing some good people to Ruby over this.
I'd make a wild guess a bunch of Java folk now using or trying Rails
would have much preferred to jump to Python.

That's how it looks to me. Maybe Ian is on this list and can explain
further.

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