Recently, when attempting to get perl put on my employer's "Approved Enterprise Standards" list, I received the following reply (typical for an anti-open source company)

"Perl is not a supported language, so we don't want business logic coded using Perl. If something happens and an application goes down we want to be able to call the vendor for support."

My first reaction was that most languages don't have a vendor - at least not C and SQL (These are approved, of course). Is this true? And who really cares if the language has one, as long as the compiler/interpreter you use does offer enterprise support. It appears ActiveState offers contracts for support, so would this place perl on a level playing field with languages like C or Java as far as support goes? Does anybody have any other suggestions for a rebuttal?

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