I have an application that runs on Windows, and it can be accessed through Visual Basic scripting (lots of people embed it in Excel sheets) so I should be able to control it with Win32::OLE (although I'm not very experienced with perl-on-windows). I have another application that runs only on Unix machines, and it's API is available through a custom Perl module.
Is there any simple solution that could allow a Perl program to interface with both of these programs at the same time? I couldn't find an answer on Google or CPAN, and I really don't want to implement my own socket server to do this.