On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:15:59 -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Andreas J. Koenig [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
>*>
>*>Welcome in the endless loop of advocacy: An animation environment
>*>needs a programming language embedded. So which do the bloated
>*>companies choose? The one that people are familiar with and using a
>*>lot. So Adobe supports JavaScript within SVG, not perl. Blech.
>*>Convince them to use perl instead, more people will be using perl,
>*>more people will be asking for perl in the future. How do you convince
>*>them?
>
>I would imagine that someone like ActiveState would approach them with a
>proposal and some sort of partnering arrangement to get Perl into their
>products.
We actually already do this with some companies, although it typically
goes the other way round: Customers ask their software vendor for Perl
scripting support who in turn subcontracts some of the embedding work to
ActiveState. But without perceived customer demand for such a feature, no
work is being done.
For example, we are putting Perl support into Zope, provide Perl level
mail filtering for Sendmail and are going to create Perl XPCOM binding for
Mozilla.
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to give examples where we have done this to
more proprietary software, so I added Reg to the CC list (he knows what
work is under NDA and what isn't). Please contact Reg Nordman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> directly if you think there are any interesting
opportunities in this area.
-Jan
