Gabor wrote: > A quick look at some of the Open Source related Foundations and the list of > their corporate sponsors: > > Gnome: http://foundation.gnome.org/ > Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org/corporate_sponsors/ > Apache: http://apache.org/foundation/thanks.html > > As for amounts, the Apache Platinum sponsorship is 100.000 USD / year
These are also important open source efforts which have been integrated into commercial products. It makes sense that they get corporate support, since those very corporations have a vested bottom line interest for the open source products to succeed. Gabor wrote: > Programming languages have a lot less direct financial support but that > is something we are changing with the Perl Ecosystem Group: > http://perl-ecosystem.org/ > > We are new so the list of members is still short > http://perl-ecosystem.org/members > but you can see that both Uri Bruck and Raz (Oded Resnick) are > members and we have members from several other countries as well. Kudos to the efforts, too. I think that when a corporation integrates Perl into their commercial product, and sees value in Perl's continued development in their product, then Perl will find a more secure future, and perhaps Perl 6 will finally become a commercially accepted language choice. I've seen some products integrate Perl, like IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest, though it seems that they prefer to use a frozen 10 year old version of Perl, and not contribute to Perl's continued development. mod_perl also has some serious sponsors, probably due to their support of Apache. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
