Gabor wrote: > 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!
When a commercial product has a list of functional requirements that include an open source project, then the product's management will dedicate resources to support that functional requirement. In the case were a company relies on Perl as a non-functional requirement, like using it as a tool for building or testing the product, then a lot less resources are dedicated to Perl. So, it is a difference between Perl being part of functional vs. non-functional requirements of a commercial product. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
