Optaros together with State of Geneva wins international programming contest
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
The joint Optaros-State-of-Geneva team win the Perl track of “Plat_Forms 2007”
A team built from consultants of the global Open Source and Next Generation Internet specialist Optaros and the State of Geneva won the Perl track of the international programming contest “Plat_Forms 2007”.
The programming contest “Plat_forms 2007 - The Web Development Platform Comparison” was conducted in January 2007 in Nurnberg. The contest is an integral element of research project of the “Freie Universität Berlin”. Three broadly used programming languages and environments (Perl, PHP, Java) were compared to understand how well they are suited for rapid web development. In each track three teams took the challenge to implement a comprehensive “social networking” web application in only 30 hours using Perl, PHP or Java.
“It’s really impressive, what our team achieved in only 30 hours. This clearly shows the potential that modern and open programming languages have for rapid and agile web development”, said Bruno von Rotz, Vice President for Strategy & Research at Optaros. “This contest showcased what we see happening with Web 2.0. We use Perl, but also PHP and Java in a wide range of situations and can confirm that effective high performance teams can deliver complex solutions in weeks that used to take months if not years just few years ago.”
The team, formed by two consultants of Optaros and one employee of the State of Geneva, has been able to win the Perl track. The highly efficient and closely collaborating team of Laurent Dami, Cédric Bouvier and Jean-Christophe Durand were able to find pragmatic solutions for complex problems in a short period of time and to deliver a compact and easily enhanceable result. “The flexibility of Perl and the enabled development approach helped us a lot in this exercise”, mentioned Cédric Bouvier of Optaros. “Perl is a highly attractive alternative for rapid web development, especially when combined with powerful frameworks such as Catalyst”, added Laurent Dami of State of Geneva. “Nine months ago we started building the new court management system for Geneva in Perl, in partnership with Optaros; the contest confirms that these strategic choices were the right thing to do. Once more we were able to show that Perl makes easy things easy and hard things possible, as Larry Wall, the creator of Perl used to say.”
The Web Development Platform Comparison” can be found at http://www.plat-forms.org/
