It's shipping perl + DBI + DBD::Oracle + libwww + libnet + ... with Oracle9iAS:
http://technet.oracle.com/products/ias/daily/oct04.html It's kind of old news in that they shipped some of this stuff in earlier releases, but it was fairly crippled. This time they seem to have gone further and be trumpeting it as significant value-add. Maybe the days of not mentioning the word 'perl' to Oracle tech support are passing. Tim. [Thanks to Ask for pointing this out]
