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users do care about the tools they know. Our perl based webapp must interact with java, windows services, ... you name it.

You should not use virtual runtimes for everything your application does but using them in overnight cronjobs is ok.

Right now we are working on some middleware because the customers wants to use existing reporting tools(c#/windows only) with our product(perl/linux).

>Look how fast and simple this is! > >Yeah nice so how do I genearte my <wateva> reports? > >Well we can do the same with our <another> reporting service! > >No I want to keep my <goodOldstuff> based reports can you integrate those?