Re: Use of Perl in the US Fed Govt

"Galbreath, Mark A" <GalbreathMA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> Problem: Security and the IT Change Control Board are very cynical and
> skeptical of open source solutions (in fact, they are pretty resistant
to
> any change at all...but we've all dealt with that before) and are
> requiring
> my team to do***ent tried and proven open source projects in other
Federal
> agencies (including the military), particularly using Perl.
>

The U.S. Census Bureau has done some interesting work with Perl:

  http://perl.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/news/census_0101.html

This is from O'Reilly's "Perl Success Stories" page, where you may find
some other useful items:

  http://perl.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/news/success_stories.html

There's also a mailing list, gov@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 "for the discussion of perl and
other open source software in use in government." It doesn't look very
active, but you may get more information from the folks that are
subscribed to the list. Sign up via gov-subscribe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Odom