title: Pylons or TurboGears vs. .NET or Java
body: <p>We're embarking on a project for a client. They plan on having about 50k users by the end of the year.  We're pushing to use Pylons w/ Mako and SQLAlchemy, and our contact there is excited about it, but some of his colleagues are wary because it's not .NET or J2ee (they're used to enterprisey stuff).</p>
  
  <p>Their web app will have some data analysis that we'll offload as well as a twang of social networking features. (basically all they have so far is some Flex mockups for UX)</p>
  
  <p>I'm looking for some evidence with regard to development time, or other reasons that will help our argument to reassure the customer.</p>
  
  <p>The other options is that we're barking up the wrong tree and have no idea. I hope that's not the case.</p>
  
  <p>Any references to case studies or whatnot would be nice.  The best I could find are</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rubio-python-turbogears.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rubio-python-turbogears.html</a></p>
  
  <p>and </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/devlin-python-oracle.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/devlin-python-oracle.html</a></p>
  
  <p>which are a bit dated (wrt to TG2 and whatnot)</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>