Re: Vendor liason
[email protected] ("Jeremy D. Zawodny")
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:03:56PM -0700, Alan Burlison wrote: > I notice in the original perl6 announcement that although there is a > "Customer Relations" person (Dick Hardt), there doesn't seem to be a > Vendor Liaison person, that is someone who is responsible for > coordinating with all the ISVs and OS vendors etc who want to bundle > or use perl in their product. Very good point. I don't know if anyone does that for Perl today. Or does someone? Such a person is needed anyway. It's not really Perl6 specific, but maybe that's what it takes to get a Vendor Liaison. > Could such a volunteer be found. Hmm. Do I have any free time? Maybe. > I think an important attribute of such a person is that they need to > be seen as vendor-neutral as possible. Agreed. Is Microsoft a vendor? (*ducking*) Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny Web Geek, Perl Hacker, Yahoo! http://www.wcnet.org/~jzawodn/ [email protected]