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in reply to Perl in the "Microsoft Research Center"

This is old news - Microsoft even included Activestate Perl 521 on the Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit in the Scripting Tools section of the installation. See this post for further details.

 

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Re: Re: Perl in the "Microsoft Research Center"
by zakzebrowski (Curate) on Jan 15, 2004 at 14:32 UTC
    Don't forget that MS & Activestate are closely tied together, at least before the buy out by sophus. This old news article talked about how Microsoft and Active State developed a parternship to develop and support perl on windows platforms. (Caveat My buisness knowledge of ActiveState is only based on what I read, which I partially remmeber. Feel free to correct me if there is additional details which I'm forgetting...)


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      Remember, Activestate used to be Hip Communications. And MS gave Hip Communications a shedload of money to port and support perl on Win32, to make it easier for people to switch their applications from the Netscape web server to IIS.
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        Remember, Activestate used to be Hip Communications. And MS gave Hip Communications a shedload of money to port and support perl on Win32, to make it easier for people to switch their applications from the Netscape web server to IIS.

        I think this is probably the best business reason I have seen on this thread to explain MS using perl, rather than embrace / extending something similar. Netscape was a large threat to them, and being able to port existing apps from NS to IIS would have been a good selling point.

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