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
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