I was considering asking a question somewhat like this -- there don't seem to be many big-name applications out there, but I think at least part of the issue is that those applications need to be, as much as possible, write-once-run-anywhere, and run-easily too. PHP is everywhere and doesn't require people to chmod their files to be executable.

So in the area of "just ftp your files and go", Perl isn't as widely represented (although MovableType and its variants are all Perl and a very big in the blogging world).

What you'll get in the Perl side of things is powerful, detailed, much-tested modules and frameworks, and you build your own application on them.

Last year I spent a lot of time fiddling about with Joomla and Drupal and Wordpress, hoping to adapt them for a site I created. They had many features, but most of them I didn't want, and the ones I did want were fiddly and complicated with hundreds of little files twenty levels of "include" deep, so I gave up on the world of "applications" and I wrote my own. I used DBD, CGI and HTML::Template. The files are small, the code separates display and programming completely, and the application does only what I need to and nothing more.

I would probably think about using CGI::Application or something next time, but still, I wouldn't get a PHP application and try to wrestle it into submission. I'd get the powerful tools I already know how to use and build up.

So even if there aren't many monolithic apps out there branded "Made With Perl", I bet there are thousands of smaller ones which quietly do exactly what their creators want.