This story came to me from Ettore Vecchione -- Computer Science Lecturer, IT Specialist, Director of the Computer Learning Center and Chair of the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Science of John Cabot University. Read on to find out how Perl, Apache and MySQL, this Open Source trio, is now playing a lovely tune to the ears of everyone at the University.

At tradeshows, people are always coming up to us and asking how they can get one of our cool t-shirts. Well, we finally figured out a way to make our animal image items available to everyone. Hear what Edie Freedman, O'Reilly's Creative Director, has to say about our animal images and how they came about.

Perl, through Project Breeze, has made it possible for the School of Natural and Physical Sciences (SNPS) at the University of Papua New Guinea, to accommodate the new academic calendar while handling the affairs of its students with far more accuracy and efficiency.

Patrick Carmichael, a lecturer at the University of Reading in the UK, sent me this story. In addition to teaching teachers to use new technologies, he carries out research into how low-cost network technologies can be used to support civil-society projects, effect social change, and aid in conflict resolution around the world.

James McGowan, a consultant for Barclays Bank at their technology center in Cheshire, England, sent me this story about an internal ordering system eSL(electronic Service Point) he designed and developed.

Here is another Perl success story from Jay Lawrence, writing in to the mod_perl mailing list. EDDS is a customized document management system.

Here is a Perl success story that was originally posted by Chris Benson to the Perl advocacy mailing list.

Congratulations! It�s a book! After what seems like a long and difficult pregnancy, the MySQL Reference Manual, the first book in the new O�Reilly Community Press series, has been born. Oops -- I mean released.

This story was sent to the Perl Advocacy mailing list and I thought I'd share it with you. The Template Generator is a Perl script that creates Web pages using an XML-based site description.

Working in the O'Reilly bookstore at the WWDC a couple of weeks ago was quite an eye-opener for me.