On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:49:41 -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When you have a website that loses 1 million dollars per minute and you
>need stuff fixed pronto, there is nothing that says I love you like a
>Platinum support contract and a support engineer who will call the guy who
>wrote the kernel for the filer out at the pool to compile you a new
>version of wack because they shipped without a working version. [ true
>story ]. If someone could do that level of support for perl, things might
>be a bit different.
ActiveState is actually providing this level of support to select clients
(e.g. guarantee of availability of a certain number of developer hours on
short notice each month to handle catastrophes etc). Details are very
client specific and subject to negotiation. :)
-Jan