> Could you elaborate a bit how you envision this "focal point" to work? > I would prefer to hear some concrete examples, and not just general > hand-waving... :) > Focal point concept is similar to the Apache Foundation, where multiple technologies are being developed. People get to know about and trust these technologies because they trust the ASF 'brand'.
ActiveState is not ASF in the sense that it does not fund the various Perl projects.Think of it like a Perl-based project directory. If ActiveState can collect these projects under its site, it can: 1. Convince people there's momentum with commercial value on the Perl platform. 2. Bring awareness of the various Perl projects that's around to the Perl community. 3. Help make these projects easy to deploy under the ActivePerl platform (prinarily via the PPDs. Kinosearch for example usually does not have an updated PPD). ActiveState is already synonymous with Perl on the Windows platform. Now make it the platform for implementing the various Perl-based technologies as well. Some strategic advantages: 1. If more people can be convinced to pick up Perl, that's a bigger community to purchase ActiveState products from. 2. If more people will consider ActivePerl frameworks for deploying Perl-based project engines, that will encourage the takeup of your ActiveState products. > PS: I forgot to mention this earlier in this thread, but there is > also Perl 5.10 coming up later this summer. From what I read, there's not much improvement to the thread control. That's quite disappointing. _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
