Re^2: Enterprise Perl

...so that a single click install gave the developer Perl, a bunch of proven, certified (!), helper modules such as DBI and its brethren, HTML::Template or Template and...

ActiveState already offers this service/product for free, minus the helper modules you list (which are easily added if the ppm repositories for each are known by the installer). They also offer 'premium' cost-model support options. How does the proposition differ more significantly?

(This post is not an advocation of ActiveState's products or services.)

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Re^3: Enterprise Perl by eric256 (Parson) on Aug 05, 2005 at 17:36 UTC
(This post is not an advocation of ActiveState's products or services.) No but it is interesting. I just suddenly thought of charging my company to install perl. They would realy look at it differently then, and oddly enough I think they would like it better if they had to pay for it. ___________ Eric Hodges	[reply]
Re^3: Enterprise Perl by punkish (Priest) on Aug 05, 2005 at 17:59 UTC
Yes, ActiveState does offer this kind of service. And, yes, they also offer a 'premium' cost-model. However, they don't offer a framework a la "Ruby on Rails" or "Zope," or, something that is at least advertised (propogandized) as a framework. The framework standardizes the helper modules. If enterprises were intelligent, they would realize that paying for it has nothing to do with its quality... knowing that the tools exist to create it would be enough (as I mentioned in my OP, Morgan Stanley seems to already do this via "one Perl to rule them all.") Sadly the enterprises are not intelligent. So, unless we don't mind not occupying in that mindspace, we need to create something that the enterprises think they want. -- when small people start casting long shadows, it is time to go to bed	[reply]