I believe ActiveState offers support for their distribution of Perl (which isn't limited to a Windows version), so in a way this is already taken care of. If management wants a supported Perl solution, they can buy it from them.

Though I don't know how 3rd-party modules are handled. I don't know if you have to get your modules via ActiveState, or even if ActiveState supports 3rd-party modules. I might suggest this to them if they don't already do that over creating a new company to start from scratch.

But hey, competition is always good.