“Do you know Perl? No? Well, that’s not surprising. Last year
you probably didn’t know Linux, either.”
“And, as in the case of Linux –another product of open-source
software development — Perl seems ready to emerge from
obscurity.”
“ActiveState, you see, first brought Perl to Windows. And
recently — in a controversial move that caused more than just a
ripple of concern in the one-million-strong Perl open-source
development community — signed a three-year, $1 million US
partnership with Microsoft.“