ActiveState is a company that receives money from Microsoft to do
very nice ports of Perl (
ActivePerl), Python and Tcl/Tk to Win32.
The Perl and Python distributions are
very nicely packaged. Perl's packages are type
PPM
They also sell value added in the form of Perl IDEs, Perl integration with IIS (beyond simple
CGI), and Perl developer's toolkits.
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PrestonBannister - 08 Jan 2001