What does DC gain by hosting the Python team?
The primary reason is world-class talent. These folks have produced seminal work for a sustained time, and we have had a long and productive relationship with them. From that perspective it is a pretty obvious win. More specifically, we’re getting the company ready to compete aggressively in the content management market. One of our strongest differentiators is time-to-market, and Python is core to our ability to deliver on that story. At the same time, the PythonLabs guys have some extremely unique experience in some problem domains of importance to us. They’ll clearly help us shave months off the time needed to get technology into the market, and the value of that is very important to our plans. Even regarding the core of Python, we’d like to help it take its excellence into increasingly challenging fields. Obviously we’re interested in very large-scale application clustering as one example. Python has distinguished itself in the scripting language field as being suited to larger-sca
