On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:10 PM, David Baird <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
There are plenty of companies that rely on Perl and CPAN as they are running a web based business on it. Do you make a distinction between products that are sold to clients and services built on a technology? If yes, please explain! > 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. Oracle also supplies a version of Perl with their database. I would be happy to get in contact with the people who are responsible for those products though I think first I need to locate and convince the companies rely on perl more heavily than IBM or Oracle do. With that said we are of course open to any company that is interested in supporting our efforts. regards Gabor _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
