Sorry, downvoting this. Honestly, isn't this an obvious troll?

On another note (and I am not eating the bait here), for anyone who has not worked with Zend, the Zend Platform by itself is a really well thought out and useful product, but the Zend IBM and Oracle product lines look highly questionable.. those "partnerships" were made in a couple months, wrapped around a sales and marketing force and sent out into the world, and from what I've seen of the core products, they're tarballs of other people's tarballs painted either blue (IBM) or red (oracle) .. integration my eye -- you open the box, and there's the faint odor of ... gah, I digress

Perl needs some really big corporate backing too
Exactly what Perl doesn't need!