I work for a large outsourcing company where we have to manage customers sites, which includes servers, network devices as well as applications and databases. As you can imagine there are tons of tools and databases with infomation on the operational health of each customer. Too make matters worse this is an international company.

Most of our tools are also developed internally to our company and are almost all in perl. We started developing a toolkit that would incorporate certain of the tools (starting and stopping services, queries on certain databases, some graphing and reporting etc) The problem we had, was having to distribute the binaries and libraries and keeping versions updated and the same throughout the enterprise.

So we decided to put the tools on an intranet and use cgi to do most of the gui stuff in forms. This was we have 1 version of this toolkit and everyone can use it the SAME. Should we need to make changes we do it in one place.

The reason we stuck with perl is because all the guys can currently work in perl and only 1 out of 5 can work in Java. One of the other guys is looking into PHP but we all kinda agree that from a support point of view it is far easier if we all use the same language. Working well for us so far.