I just started a new job where Microsoft is the de facto standard. Because the state continues to freeze and/or cut the University's budgets, getting money to buy new server hardware is out of the question.

All that means I have to look at what I have and what I can do with it. My current thoughts are investigating IIS, PerlEx, and Oracle (University has site-wide license), but I'm having a hard time finding people's current experience with PerlEx and whether it's for real.

Is anyone out there using it? I'm originally a Perl on Unix developer, so I have to learn the nuances of PerlEx on Win32 with IIS. Is that transition difficult or are there suggested reading materials? What are people's experience with PerlEx? Good? Bad? etc.

In summary, I guess I'm looking for other people in the same boat as I'm thinking about boarding myself: PerlEx from ActiveState.

In reply to Anyone using PerlEx? by comatose

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