An announcement just out of Honolulu brings word that, at the Aculab
communications exchange (ACE) in Hawaii, the wonderfully named SkunkWorks
Australia has implemented Telco Perl in its Whirlwind telephony toolkit.
"Combined with the Linux-based, telco-grade Whirlwind," says the official
release, "Telco Perl brings the power, cost savings and flexibility of one of
the world's most popular application programming languages to
telecommunications resellers and systems integrators for the first time."
SkunkWorks is spearheading the use of Telco Perl - Perl has endless
flexibility and communicates with a long list of legacy systems such as
databases, communications gateways and Web servers, as well as providing
reporting and graphics - in preference to the proprietary languag... (more)
ActiveState announced the release of ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1001, the
complete, ready-to-install Perl distribution for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux,
Solaris, and AIX. Today also marks the 20th Anniversary of Perl, introduced
on December 18, 1987, by Larry Wall.
Millions of developers worldwide rely on ActivePerl. Complete and
ready-to-install, the free ActivePerl distribution includes core P... (more)
ActiveState announced the release of ActiveTcl 8.5, in conjunction with the
official release by the Tcl Core Team of version 8.5.0 of the Tcl dynamic
language and the Tk GUI toolkit. Over four years in development, this release
is a major advance over earlier versions.
Tcl is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic programming language,
suitable for a very wide range of uses, including ... (more)
Arbor Networks has announced the availability of version 5.0 of Arbor
Peakflow SP, the industry's leading network-wide infrastructure security and
traffic-monitoring platform. The new Peakflow SP 5500 device nearly doubles
the performance and scalability of the previous version. Peakflow SP now
includes ATLAS-enabled fingerprint creation, alerting and mitigation; deeper
visibility into t... (more)