Don't forget that MS & Activestate are closely tied together, at least before the buy out by sophus. This old news article talked about how Microsoft and Active State developed a parternship to develop and support perl on windows platforms. (Caveat My buisness knowledge of ActiveState is only based on what I read, which I partially remmeber. Feel free to correct me if there is additional details which I'm forgetting...)
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Remember, Activestate used to be Hip Communications. And MS gave Hip Communications a shedload of money to port and support perl on Win32, to make it easier for people to switch their applications from the Netscape web server to IIS.
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Remember, Activestate used to be Hip Communications. And MS gave Hip Communications a shedload of money to port and support perl on Win32, to make it easier for people to switch their applications from the Netscape web server to IIS.
I think this is probably the best business reason I have seen on this thread to explain MS using perl, rather than embrace / extending something similar. Netscape was a large threat to them, and being able to port existing apps from NS to IIS would have been a good selling point.
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