That's a tough nut to crack. Activestate does offer Enterprise support for Perl. Something else to checkout would be the Perl 5 Enterprise Environment group.

Afterthought: Here at the GIANT company that I work with Perl isn't a "standard" either. As soon as I got here I started loading modules into my home folder and using it as a utility to munge stuff. It saved me a bunch of time even if I couldn't use it for "production" code. It's funny when I get the hangdog looks from developers: "How'd ya do that?" "I just wipped up a lil' Perl script." "Oh... I don't know nuttin' bout Perl.". Thank god HP-UX has it installed by default.

It seemed like the place was hopeless until I just found out that they were going to go to CVS. The person in charge of the decision's been with the company for 25 years and just didn't trust open source. After years of hearing developers begging for it he just went and changed his mind. The times they are a changin'.

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