Hi Kalim, ActiveState has partnered with numerous companies to ensure that Perl works well with a variety of popular platforms and technologies. Hence we've worked with HP, Intel, Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, and Zope to name a few.
If you have further questions about ActiveState, feel free to email us off list, so as to not clog the list with off-topic discussions. Sincerely, Lori -----Original Message----- From: kalim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why Perl? here's a question: what's with your company's obsession with .NET? it is not open source, and is probably meant simply as a snare by microsoft to get perl programmers into the microsoft camp (embrace and extend, remember?). Lori Pike wrote: > > We would like to do some Perl advocacy with the media and do it in a > fun catchy way (in order to better get their attention). Accordingly, > does anyone have estimates on any of the following for Perl (similar > to what was recently estimated for Linux in > http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/): > > * developer time contributed to writing Perl core > * person-years of development time based on COCOMO model > * number of developers that have contributed > * lines of code > * cost to develop by conventional proprietary means > * anything else that might be an interesting/unusual stat > > Thanks! > Lori > > Lori Pike > Director Corporate Communications, ActiveState > phone 604.484.6417 / cell 604.808.6655 http://www.ActiveState.com
