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Hi pvsbandi,<br />
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Yes it is &quot;freeware&quot; ... although there are 'purchase' options out there. &nbsp;There are several distributions for windows, I personally use the one from Activestate (<a href="http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/" rel="ugc">http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/</a>).<br />
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You may want to look at <a href="http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Win32_Distributions" rel="ugc">http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Win32_Distributions</a><br />
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lwadwell
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Hi pvsbandi,

Yes it is "freeware" ... although there are 'purchase' options out there.  There are several distributions for windows, I personally use the one from Activestate (http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/ [http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/]).

You may want to look at http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Win32_Distributions [http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Win32_Distributions]


lwadwell

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Thanks for the input! So, you recommend using the activeperl for a company,as big as 300 employees?
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Thanks for the input! So, you recommend using the activeperl for a company,as big as 300 employees?

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Thanks man! I'll give it a try.Will keep you posted on what i find.
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Thanks man! I'll give it a try.Will keep you posted on what i find.

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Hi,<br />
&nbsp; Our company is planning to move from Unix platform to windows platform and so,want me to write perl scripts,replacing the existing unix shell scripts.For that we need to install perl on windows.<br />
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&nbsp; My question is, how do we install perl? is it a freeware? or do we have to buy it from someone?<br />
&nbsp; Please guide me here.<br />
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Thanks!
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Hi,
  Our company is planning to move from Unix platform to windows platform and so,want me to write perl scripts,replacing the existing unix shell scripts.For that we need to install perl on windows.

  My question is, how do we install perl? is it a freeware? or do we have to buy it from someone?
  Please guide me here.

Thanks!

is PERL, a freeware in all companies?

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.

Unix OS

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages with over 25 years of development. Perl 5 runs on over 100 platforms from portables to mainframes and is suitable for both rapid prototyping and large-scale development projects.  Perl gained widespread popularity as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripting language, in part due to its regular expression and string parsing abilities. In addition to CGI, Perl is used for graphics programming, system administration, network programming, finance, bioinformatics, and other applications.