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Python as middleware

28th November 2002

OpenEnterpriseTrends.com: Python Power: Growing Respect for an Open Source Integration Tool. Another excellent piece of Python advocacy, this time highlighting Python’s power and flexibility as a middleware tool to glue together varous large enterprise systems.

Posted 28th November 2002 at 11:24 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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