Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.013 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'stuff,': 0.07; 'target,': 0.09; 'xor': 0.09; 'am,': 0.12; 'broken': 0.12; 'c++': 0.12; 'depends.': 0.16; 'endlessly': 0.16; 'from:addr:alec.taylor6': 0.16; 'from:name:alec taylor': 0.16; 'interesting:': 0.16; 'subject:Language': 0.16; 'subject:Programing': 0.16; '\xa0for': 0.16; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'say,': 0.19; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.20; 'stuff': 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; '+0100,': 0.23; 'sfxlen:0': 0.23; 'aug': 0.24; 'suspect': 0.24; 'sat,': 0.28; 'tech': 0.28; 'url:mailman': 0.28; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.29; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.30; 'important,': 0.30; 'subject:?': 0.31; 'probably': 0.33; 'url:listinfo': 0.33; 'subject:What': 0.34; 'pretty': 0.35; 'anything': 0.36; 'url:python': 0.36; 'presence': 0.36; 'but': 0.37; 'received:google.com': 0.38; 'url:org': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.39; 'received:74.125': 0.39; "it's": 0.40; 'more': 0.60; 'companies': 0.66; 'companies,': 0.66; 'making': 0.67; 'said:': 0.67; 'subject:are': 0.70; 'kinds': 0.70; 'money.': 0.72; 'on?': 0.84; 'subject:Largest': 0.84; 'consumer': 0.85 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zTPaAs3jtpL7iIlKGlIS4vnB1oPq589jbMLQJHFSYm0=; b=ij01DRO1IresG4u1p6C65T+d/9LgeVK2fFdX0Z7kF1LjGrAA8trs7V543IaBvXLfXD Vev0Gqdvs6Uds13yDzVk+jRI9lYuoLVbVKsl4a8cBICRc95vRN6xKjTr+ygzeVVvC58R wqI4cLWSt3rq48IdlOSn7Ch5NbS86lpoU3sbo= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20f06312-9313-4380-b7e4-2515aca01a84@d8g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <5a7b9ec6-e66d-4fd7-aa27-46eed3ce272c@k15g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:26:58 +1000 Subject: Re: What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In? From: Alec Taylor To: Tim Bradshaw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1313166421 news.xs4all.nl 23886 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59520 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:11285 C++ (Wt xor CppCMS) WOOT! On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Tim Bradshaw wrote: > On 2011-08-02 15:41:06 +0100, ccc31807 said: > >> >> Most of these are tech companies. Tech companies are very important, >> but so are other kinds of companies. What do manufacturing companies >> use, like Ford and Toyota, energy companies like BP and Exxon, >> pharmaceutical companies, consumer product companies, and so on? What >> about the big retailers, Sears, WalMart, Target, etc.? > > A more important metric is how critical the web presence is to the compan= y. > =A0For Amazon, say, it's pretty critical, so what they do is likely to be > interesting: if their site is broken they're not making any money. =A0For > Toyota, say, well, an outage would probably be embarrassing, but it's not > anything like as critical to them. > > Unfortunatly I suspect that with web stuff as with other stuff, the answe= r > is that it entirely depends. =A0I am endlessly horrified by the poor stat= e of > software that is really critical to large companies. > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >