I have help a few companies choose python for big and small projects throughout the organization I would also like to show you how adobe the acrobat group in adobe is using python to create new document services for me it all started on the tablet team it was a small startup a few years ago it helped reinvent how storytelling was done online in the beginning antonio arenas and I put our heads together had to choose between python and django or ruby and rails we chose correctly we chose django and python im proud to s say we have both have had a increasingly strong relationship antonio giving the pycon address last year here on this same stage and me attending 3 out of 4 pycons so then hp swallowed tablet whole and infected with python bug even though I left hp since I kept some tabs on the team over there the intrest in python is growing and at the last tabulation they have hired 1 billion new python programmers after hp i had a little rough patch where i did perl :( sorry about that and then i ended up in an unlikely place working on software to manipulate documents and software as a service online and i started to work on a big infrastructure project to move documents into the cloud as i was working on that new project came up and I got excited and it was a new opportunity and then I saw software stack they were originally intending to implement it this is a picture of me taken shortly after the magnitude sunk in why not take the stuff that i was already learning from migrating services into the cloud at adobe start with this service from scratch using all amazon webservice technology and using django and python my boss said go for it take a couple of weeks for a prototype so the next day i delivered the working app and the next week I developed the entire document workflow system this replaced years and years of crufty software that was holding us back django and ami in the frontend so i was psyched and this spread through adobe like wild fire my boss was so psyched he wrote a django app the next day and he had no experience with python. 