Selling Lisp

This page deals with selling -- not advocating -- Lisp in a professional way and setting. In this context, "selling" means making Lisp accepted and used for software development by commercial or other organizations in industry and research.

Relevant content includes, but is not limited to, suggestions, actual experiences, anecdotes, war stories, comments on which strategies do and do not work, brainstorming, etc. Note that the information provided here is more specific than that in Success Stories, Industry Applications and Research Organizations.

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A Simple webserver using sbcl, araneida, pg and slime

Peter van Eynde explains how he introduced Lisp for a systems engineering application in his company.

Business Opportunities for SF Bay Lispers? (comp.lang.lisp thread)

Discussion on what kind of Lisp applications may have potential commercial value.

A great case analysis of a Common Lisp based web project is on http://homepage.mac.com/svc/RebelWithACause/index.html. See also the related paper "Using Common Lisp to build Web Applications".