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Can a Software House make its tools using Perl?

Can a Software House make its tools using Perl?. The SANFACE Software experience sanface@sanface.com. Why Perl?. The initial Perl language selection was casual With simple modifies our tools can become cgis http://www.sanface.com/createpdf.html http://www.sanface.com/flash4/ferrari/

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Can a Software House make its tools using Perl?

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  1. Can a Software House make its tools using Perl? The SANFACE Software experience sanface@sanface.com

  2. Why Perl? • The initial Perl language selection was casual • With simple modifies our tools can become cgis • http://www.sanface.com/createpdf.html • http://www.sanface.com/flash4/ferrari/ • Probably our tools are the only tools that can make PDFs on OS such as: OpenVMS, MPE, OS/390, EPOC, etc. in the same way on every OS • Perl Dev Kit by ActiveState (http://www.activestate.com) and perl2exe by IndigoSTAR (http://www.indigostar.com)

  3. Why perl?The future • A generic GUI using perl/Tk • Perl 6 news: • virtual machine • New ports?: we hope a possible support for PDA, smartphone, etc.

  4. Why shareware? Four years ago the idea was innovative: Not a library, not a PS to PDF converter. A server tool that developers and project leaders can use like an external tool from every program on every OS. We thought correct to earn for our work.

  5. The market • Our first customer was Alex project • We thought the market of txt2pdf was to convert Electronic texts into PDFs • Our real market: textual reports to PDFs: • The Halifax Herald Limited projects • The Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. project • Other projects

  6. Is it possible to sell tools, distributing the source code? • “You’re crazy!” (Italian friends :) • License Agreement • Some data: • We estimate more than 100,000 downloads • 600 customers • 95% located in US

  7. A real open Perl comunity • A software house can use Perl to develop (and sell) commercial tools • A Perl software house can’t use Perl comunity to announce its products (Perl newsgroup, CPAN, etc.) • We think that Perl comunity to grow up (like Linux comunity) needs a freeware core accepting commercial tools and parnerships • We’d like other companies can follow our track with the help of Perl comunity

  8. A real open Perl comunity We hope this paper is just the first step!

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