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They use perl at least (Score:1)
One of their developers filed an RT ticket for mod_perl a couple weeks ago, but it turned out that the bug wasn't actually in mod_perl, but in Win32::Process or a similar package.
About a year or so ago they invited me to a Spike Source breakfast where they were trying to court open source software consultants to bring contracts to them and share the revenue. It seemed like an interesting idea, but they scheduled the breakfast for 8 am in Silicon Valley. That indicated to me a pretty big disconnect between those putting on the event and the invited attendees, trying to get a few hundred developers to come to a meeting at 8 in the morning is a losing proposition :)
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Maybe their rational was that they wanted to allow people to attend without interfering unduly with their day jobs, by getting it over early and allowing people to head onwards. But if this was the constraint they were working to, having an evening event for a couple of hours would have worked just as well, whilst also happening to match "typical" programmers' constraints better. So yes, I agree, "could do
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I love breakfast, I really wanted to attend it, but I was up programming until 3 am the night before so I ended up missing it...