***INTERVIEW WITH HIRING MANAGER***
Q- What is “the Entreprise”?
A- An organisation where nobody is ever liable : rules and regulations make sure nobody ever makes a mistake…(really?)

Q- What could make a hiring manager liable for hiring an unskilled python programmer in “the Entrepise”?
A- Not having “verified” his credentials.

Q- How much does it cost to verify python credentials currently?
A- Very difficult coz have to technically evaluate check references for python projects he worked on. x*$10 000.

Q- Why did you mess up and employ this idiot as PHP programmer?
A- How could I know? Zend Certifies he is good so I did not make a mistake!

Q- Should we choose python for this project?
A- No! I have no safe way of getting talent for it.

P.S.: I had 3 different job offers to double my salary within 5 weeks of passing my RHCE in “Entreprises”. I make miracles daily with python but only team members in the trenches are aware of it. Management does not count python as one of my usefull skills. They know a wrote script/program, they assume it is Java or Perl.

Sorry for my english

I think one of the ways to promote Python is to show cool applications being built with Python. The popularity of these applications should drive adoption.

Initially it may be better to use Jython or IronPython so that you can play around in the Java and .NET environment. This leverages existing Java libraries and .NET libraries and improve productivity.

A few Python code contents may help as well. I think PHP has a lot more adoption than Python or Ruby. Some of the most popular products like MediaWiki, WordPress are written in PHP. Why did they chose PHP instead of Python? I think we need to find this out as well. Zend is doing a great job (they have deals with both Oracle and Microsoft) of PR. Having a great language is not obviously enough.

Edit: I have just seen your link, I am going to look right now

@Ram Sambamurthy: Great news for your institute, I wish you
the best.
Company that uses Python are already involved in the communities
but as far as I know, for those which provide Python courses,
they are doing their materials on their own, and maybe
all those company could sit down together and thunk about
a common base.

@Simon TeW: I think Ruby had a great effect over the
Python community, for all the reasons you mentioned.

For web frameworks, RoR made a big impact on how Python frameworks
evolve: they all now look at what is beeing done on RoR side,
and that’s very good.

About Google, I can’t wait to see this company getting more
and more involved in making Python bigger. I also have a big
hope on what they will do next.

@Ant: You make an important point here. I think Java strength also
comes from the way they build up things: everything is based
on standards. On Python side, even though it’s not as big in
the industrial field, pushing PEPs the same way JSRs are would
be a good thing.

@DoctorPepper: The point is, if you are a great and smart developer,
(and it’s seem so), you won’t have any problem to sell and promote
the use of Python, because you’ll know when and how to use it.

Now take a student that is freshly gratuated, with no experience at all.
He won’t be able to sell anything but her diplomas and certification.

About time saving and money saving: maybe we could (i can’t find any
experience on the web about that)
precisely measure and compare a project ran in Python, and the same in Java,
that would be a good experience. Hard to set up though.

Now about learning other language, you are darn’ right: that’s probably
the most important point and should be the advice #1.