ninjacipher

So right up front let me just say that I love Django. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has been to my site. I think its a great framework and I really enjoy working with it. That being said all too often my clients look like a deer in headlights when I suggest using it for their projects. Unfortunately that usually means that they want to use… PHP ::dies::

Now not that there aren’t some decent PHP frameworks out there but lets be honest if I had my druthers the clear winner would ALWAYS be Python/Django. Once in awhile I will get someone who is a little bit more open minded and they will suggest Rails. Which again is fine… I would rather write Ruby then PHP any day but it still is a far cry from Django IMHO.

So my question is this… how do you sell a client on the idea of using Django?! I would love to hear your thoughts about it. To preface my client base is normally entertainment industry based (Record labels, TV networks and Movie Studios). They tend to have overly bloated IT departments that take 7 months to handle an app we can crank out in a matter of weeks. The usual roadblocks I hear are “we don’t support python” or “we have no python resources to maintain the app after your done”. Basically I think my clients tend to think that I’m suggesting they build in Django not out of trying to use the best tool for the job but more as a job security language (jsl).

Anyway as you can prob tell this is a constant source of frustration and any advice would be very much appreciated.