Check out Imperia to see a Perl based content management system that is commercially sold (price range approx. 5k US$ to 50k US$, depending on configuration and options). With over 200 installations this is the biggest web-based online content management system in terms of market share in Germany.

A lot of major clients buy this system (and not something else) because they get all the source code with it automatically, and thus are independent of vendor policies when extending or interfacing the system.

This open-source-by-nature characteristic of Perl is one of the biggest selling points for Perl in the "large systems" category, IMHO. And this is definitively recognized by clients. It's probably just that your average Perl fan is so opposed to doing "business stuff" (as in "I'm a Hacker - they are Managers"), that a lot of commercial opportunities for Perl are missed due to communication problems.

BTW, the software for one of the worlds largest electronic stock markets (Germany's XETRA system) uses Perl to do all the controlling and configuration stuff - they got too tired of reprogramming Unix shell in Win32 batch language :-).

Christian Lemburg
Brainbench MVP for Perl
http://www.brainbench.com

In reply to RE: perl as a selling point by clemburg
in thread perl as a selling point by nop

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