Comment What is the goal? (Score 1) 232
My boss and I routinely look at new tools and technology with an eye to solving our company's problems and build cool new stuff. Our goal is not to embrace flavour-of-the-month technology. It's to identify better solutions to old problems, or find good solutions to new problems. Tools have to work, or they serve no purpose. Everything else follows from there.
We do most of our development in C on Linux, but have incorporated virtualization and cloud computing, new technologies that
provide better solutions to old problems. The jury is still
out on other goodies. I like python, while my boss prefers perl. I like Django, while he prefers PHP. He's the boss, so I write lots of perl and PHP...
...laura