Perlex END OF LIFE

i just received a notice from activestate saying they are cancelling all dealings with perlex! what is up with the short notice! no more bug fixes or anything....PERFECT.
Email Received:

This letter provides notification of the end of engineering support 
for ActiveState PerlEx, effective immediately.

ActiveState is committed to meeting our customers' needs in ways that 
prove most beneficial both to them and to the dynamic language 
community as a whole. With this in mind, we have decided to better 
allocate our Perl development and support resources. 

If you have any questions, please email me at 
ShantelS@ActiveState.com, or call me directly at 604.484.6454.

Thank you for evaluating PerlEx. We look forward to working with you 
to support your future development needs.

Sincerely,
Shantel Shave

_____________

Shantel Shave, 
Director of Marketing, ActiveState
Email: ShantelS@ActiveState.com
Tel: 604.484.6454
www.ActiveState.com
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This isn't a technical question but it does pertain to perl. I was wandering if anyone else was blind sided by this or if i just missed the warning memo?

Any chances on them releasing or liscensing the source code out to the perl community in order to assist those who still loyally use it?

Curious to hear your comments, thanks - Bob

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Re: Perlex END OF LIFE by Molt (Chaplain) on Oct 04, 2004 at 16:33 UTC
According to http://www.activestate.com/Products/PerlEx/ they're actually finishing engineering support at the end of September 2005, would be interesting to know which is actually correct.	[reply]
Re^2: Perlex END OF LIFE by bear0053 (Hermit) on Oct 04, 2004 at 22:18 UTC
yes they will continue to support helping you install a dead product...but what about helping the people that still use and have used that product for a long time. ActiveState is completely abandoning them by their following statement Although there will be no further maintenance updates or bug fixes for PerlEx, we will continue to offer existing PerlEx customers standard support (installation and configuration) through March 31, 2005. There are no plans to de-activate the PerlEx discussion list or remove product documentation on ASPN. Who wants to know how to install a product that is dead?? Why would they just pull the rug out like that? Does anyone have any insight on this situation? I am utterly befuddled!	[reply]
Re^3: Perlex END OF LIFE by tachyon (Chancellor) on Oct 05, 2004 at 07:53 UTC
Two words: BEAN COUNTERS, obviously it is not a profitable item. Getting stuff to work with M$ products with their somewhat unstable and inadequately documeneted APIs may also have been an issue.	[reply]
Re^4: Perlex END OF LIFE by jfroebe (Parson) on Oct 14, 2004 at 03:20 UTC