[SP-pm] Teen sells Perl cloud startup to ActiveState

Nelson Ferraz nferraz at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 03:09:08 PDT 2011


Um caso de sucesso baseado em Perl e Mojolicious:

Meet Daniil Kulchenko. He was an HTML programmer at age six. He was a
freelance Linux systems administrator at 11. And at 15, he founded his
first business: Phenona, a platform-as-a-service for building and
hosting Perl applications.

Now, Kulchenko has sold Phenona to dynamic language specialist
ActiveState for an undisclosed sum. ActiveState was founded in 1997,
making it one-year younger than Kulchenko, who is still a high school
student in Seattle, Washington. One day, he plans on getting a
computer-science degree.

Kulchenko is joining ActiveState's developer team on a part-time basis
to help with the company's transformation into cloud outfit for Perl,
Python, and Tcl developers. Kulchenko is Phenona's only employee.

Phenona is still in beta, and Kulchenko told The Register that a
number of large companies are evaluating the service, with sites
getting "millions of hits a month".

(...)

Copeland says he was alerted to Phenona by an ActiveState engineer
impressed by its use of the Perl framework Mojolicious. Kulchenko
picked Mojolicious after beginning the service on Catalyst for Perl.
Catalyst, he said, wasn't good for moving apps from build to testing
and deployment.

"Mojolicious was a good way to start small and later build that simple
solution to something much larger," Kulchenko said.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/activestate_buys_teen_programmer/


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