A little bit of Wednesday morning advocacy: Peter Prymmer (<pvhp@forte.com>) notes that Apache is not the only Open Source software project IBM is pushing. Perl is being noted as an important tool for IBM systems:
http://www.software.hosting.ibm.com/data/net.data/docs/v2m/dtwl1m05.htm
http://www.software.hosting.ibm.com/data/net.data/docs/v2m/dtwl1m30.htm
http://www.as400.ibm.com/tstudio/WORKSHOP/tiptools/PERL.HTM
http://iws.as400.ibm.com/DemDwn/perl.htm
http://www.as400.ibm.com/tstudio/WORKSHOP/tiptools/PERL_RM.HTM
http://iws.as400.ibm.com/DemDwn/perl_rm.htm
http://www.vm.ibm.com/openedition/oeqs9.html