| While many companies work on technologies on their own, we like to involve the customer. We start by walking him through the various languages and frameworks that can be employed, describing the benefits and drawbacks of each. It is worth the effort to provide a one- hour presentation on the advantages of an object-oriented language, the need for clustering, and the relative merits of Oracle and SQL Server to marketing customers. These are decisions that the customer should participate in making. Never assume otherwise because the choice of technologies used in Web site development will affect the lifecycle of the Web site, ongoing maintenance costs, and other real business concerns. |