Please don't take the comment as a negative to either MS or ActiveState. I
just found it interesting that an MS shop would negate using a tool that has
a relationship with MS.
Frank J. Schmuck, Chief Financial Officer
Lee County Community Hospital
Pennington Gap, VA
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: Elaine -HFB- Ashton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 9:34 AM
To: Frank Schmuck, CFO
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Microsoft and Perl
Frank Schmuck, CFO [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>Doesn't Microsoft have an interest, if not a controlling interest, in
*>ActiveState?
There are a lot of companies that invested in ActiveState, O'Reilly is one
of them along with MS...while money can buy interest and research, it is
unlikely that there is a 'controlling' interest.
http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Communications/Releases/Press958767657.
html
and
http://history.perl.org/
e.
