(This post is not an advocation of ActiveState's products or services.)
No but it is interesting. I just suddenly thought of charging my company to install perl. They would realy look at it differently then, and oddly enough I think they would like it better if they had to pay for it.
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Yes, ActiveState does offer this kind of service. And, yes, they also offer a 'premium' cost-model. However, they don't offer a framework a la "Ruby on Rails" or "Zope," or, something that is at least advertised (propogandized) as a framework.
The framework standardizes the helper modules. If enterprises were intelligent, they would realize that paying for it has nothing to do with its quality... knowing that the tools exist to create it would be enough (as I mentioned in my OP, Morgan Stanley seems to already do this via "one Perl to rule them all.")
Sadly the enterprises are not intelligent. So, unless we don't mind not occupying in that mindspace, we need to create something that the enterprises think they want.
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