ActivePerl

What is ActivePerl?

ActivePerl Business and Enterprise Editions has a precompiled, supported, and guaranteed quality perl distribution used by millions of developers worldwide to facilitate the installation of Perl and secure quality code. When you're using Perl on production servers or mission-critical applications, ActivePerl Business and Enterprise Editions offer significant time savings over open source Perl to install, manage, and standardize your Perl.

Reduce risks:

With commercially supported Perl Meet enterprise policy requirements to support open source products Full license review, including all precompiled third-party Perl modules with warranties to minimize risk (Enterprise Edition only) Protect your organization from legal risk with indemnification coverage (Enterprise Edition only) Extended platform and version support.

ActivePerl Enterprise Edition extends its ability to develop applications for the following additional operating systems: Solaris, AIX, HP-UX. Enterprise and Enterprise Editions provide access to earlier versions of Perl: Convenient and worry-free access to ActivePerl 5.24, 5.22, 5.20, 5.18, 5.16, 5.14, 5.12, 5.10, 5..

Benefit from the ability to test your products against any version Although the use of non-production is permitted free of charge using our latest versions of Community Edition, the use of legacy versions on non-production and/or production machines requires a ''Business Edition' or ''Enterprise Edition'' license.

Tested, timely and compatible:

Save time in your development cycles, starting with a pre-compiled Perl distribution for pre-installed installation and standardization on the operating systems you trust, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X (as well as Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX in Enterprise Edition). Develop once and successfully implement yourself throughout your production environment. ActivePerl Business and Enterprise Editions include: Precompiled Perl Distribution for pre-installed installation, including ActivePerl 5.8, 5.10, 5.12, 5.14, 5.16, 5.18, 5.20, 5.22, 5.24 Additional Binary Core Perl Binaries for popular packages/modules through Perl Package Manager (PPM) 1 Access to ppm index for easy searching through over 10,000 Third-party Perl Modules Extensive Security Documentation with ActivePerl Every organization is focused on security but not all individuals. Downloading a package quickly to do the job is not uncommon, but leaves companies very vulnerable. Someone on your team used a package that was

Outdated or not met your company's security standards?

When using ActivePerl, there is no more guessing whether your Perl distribution has incorporated the latest OpenSSL patch or if an unreceived packet has been downloaded from an unverified repository. We've updated all included modules to the latest version with each Enterprise build, and provide timely security updates for critical issues. We provide custom builds for older versions of ActivePerl that are linked against OpenSSL 1.0.2g. Some older modules in our Perl Package Manager are still linked against 1.0.0b, but we are continuously upgrading to 1.0.2g as the modules are rebuilt.

Having served Fortune 1000 companies for 20 years, we understand the security requirements of organizations like yours and give you the peace of mind you need

Save time with perl experts support With ActivePerl Business and Enterprise Editions, you get the technical support you need to save time and get to market faster. Keep your development issues private with direct access to our Perl support team Learn about Perl's expertise at your fingertips with service level agreements (SLAs) to meet your business needs (Enterprise Edition only) Free up valuable development time to focus on your core competencies Ensure maximum uptime for your critical applications.

System requirements

Intel 80486 Hardware Processor;

Alfa or Pentium recommended 16 MB of minimum RAM for Windows NT,

Recommended 32 MB 8 MB of minimum RAM for Windows 95,

16 MB of recommended 20 MB hard drive space for typical Installation Operating System Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 3 recommended),

Windows 98 or Windows 95.