Why did they stop, then? I mean, it is an open source product supported by Oracle. Oracle ships its database with perl 5.6.1 and DBI included. It's not as if ORacle told them to stop or else.... -- Mladen Gogala A & E TV Network Ext. 1216 > -----Original Message----- > From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 4:28 PM > To: mladen.gogala@xxxxxxxx > Cc: John.Hallas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Perl and DBI (5.6 and 5.8) > > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:03:04 -0500, Gogala, Mladen > <mladen.gogala@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Activestate stopped building because of something legal > nature called > > "laziness". In plain English, they didn't feel like building it any > > more. That is as compelling reason as any. > > Maybe compelling, but not the reason AS quit building DBD::Oracle. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l