SERVICES Hi Jay-

Based on customer feedback we are considering a variety of options for
PerlEx.

I hope to have more news next week.

Sincerely,

-Matt

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Matt Herdon
Director, Product Management
ActiveState
a division of Sophos
604.484.6455
www.ActiveState.com
www.Sophos.com

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Jay Lawrence [mailto:jay@[...].ca] 
>  Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 7:39 AM
>  To: Matt Herdon; perlex@listserv.ActiveState.com; 
>  sales@[...].com
>  Subject: Re: Regarding PerlEx End-of-Life Notification
>  
>  > On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 01:12, Matt Herdon wrote:
>  >> In the meanwhile, the installable software continues be available 
>  >> from the ftp site. The discuss list will remain and 
>  standard support 
>  >> will continue until 31st March 2005. You should all have 
>  received an 
>  >> email to this effect by now.
>  >>
>  >> We are considering various ways in which we might best help PerlEx 
>  >> customers moving forward.
>  
>  Has ActiveState considered moving PerlEx into OpenSource - I 
>  am certain that there is a large enough user base to continue 
>  supporting it.
>  
>  Unless ActiveState intends to continue selling the product - 
>  or there is proprietary code it does not wish to release - 
>  I'd say that putting PerlEx into Open Source is a no brainer.
>  
>  Jay Lawrence
>  Ottawa
>