Perl based open source products

This is the list of all the Perl-based open source products I am aware of.

Especially if we focus on products serving the generic public. Not just other Perl developers.

Thanks to all the people, but especially to Dean Hamstead and Renee Baecker, who sent me tons of links.

I tried to check which one of these products allow people to make money from them. How do the web-site of the open-source project promote the businesses. I'd be very interested to know which projects are actually supported by their commercial backers, and how do they feel about each other?

Are they run by a single company? Is there a commercial interest behind the project shared by several individuals or companies? Is the project purely fun-based?

CMS / Publishing systems / Blog engines / wikis
This is a mix of platforms. Some stared out as Content Management Systems (CMS) others as wikis, yet others as blog engines. In the end there is a huge overlap between what they do so I put them in one category.

[Movable Type](http://movabletype.org/) is a publishing platform, though I think it is mostly known as a blog engine. It is backed by the company called [Six Apart](http://www.sixapart.com/) that provides a [hosted version of Movable Type](http://www.movabletype.com/). [blogs.perl.org](http://blogs.perl.org/) is running Movable Type. It is sopped being an open source product. The latest Open source release was 5.2.9.

[WebGUI](http://webgui.org/) is a content management system (CMS) created by [Plain Black](http://plainblack.com/). It is a very business oriented CMS. On the web site, you can find a number of [partners](http://www.webgui.org/partners) that provide commercial support and customization services. This looks like a living ecosystem of open-source and business.

[Twiki](http://twiki.org/) is one of the best-known wiki software with an orientation to support companies. It is built primarily by the company with the same name that also provides [cloud-based hosted Twiki service](http://twiki.net/). There are a number of consultants providing support for Twiki. They are listed on the web site in a very prominent place.

[Foswiki](http://foswiki.org/) is a wiki base an enterprise collaboration platform. There are individuals providing [commercial support for Foswiki](http://foswiki.org/Support/WikiConsultants).

[Bricolage CMS](http://www.bricolagecms.org/) is a web publishing system providing workflow management for publishers. It then generates pages that can be either static or even use some other language to be dynamic. ([Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage_(software)))

[Krang CMS](http://www.krangcms.com/) Open Source web publisher. It is used by several web-sites but as I can see development is not too active.

[Blosxom](http://blosxom.sourceforge.net/) is a simple blog engine generating static pages. For more information also check out the [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blosxom) page of Blosxom. There is also a [new community site for Blosxom](http://muli.cc/).

[Cyclone3](http://www.cyclone3.org/) and Open-Source Web 2.0 Application Framework. It uses XUL which, if I am not mistaken, was discontinued by Mozilla.

[BlazeBlogger](http://blaze.blackened.cz/) is a simple to use but capable CMS for the command line.

[Galileo CMS](http://galileo-cms.herokuapp.com/) written by Joel Berger.

[Blio](https://github.com/domm/Blio), a static blogging engine.

[iWeb CMS](http://iwebcms.org/)

[XIMS](http://xims.info/) Content Management System

[Dreamwidth](http://www.dreamwidth.org/) is a community system for shared blogging. It was forked from the last open source version of Live Journal.

[Angerwhale](https://github.com/jrockway/angerwhale) is a [Catalyst](http://www.catalystframework.org/)-based blogging package. As I can see it has been removed from CPAN and has not been updated since 2009.

[Simpleness CMS](http://simpleness.org/) and open source Content Management system. Source code is available [on GitHub](https://github.com/ivanoff/cms.simpleness.org).

Help-desk, Request and Bug tracking

[OTRS](http://otrs.com/) is a Help-desk and IT Service Management software. Sort of like a bug tracking system geared to the enterprise. It is created and developed by company with the same name based in Germany.

[Request Tracker](http://bestpractical.com/rt/) is a bug and issue tracking system written and supported by [Best Practical](http://bestpractical.com/). It is used by [CPAN](https://rt.cpan.org/) and the [Perl development team](https://rt.perl.org/) as well. ([Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_Tracker))

[Bugzilla](http://bugzilla.org/) is the well known bug-tracking system developed by and for Mozilla. It is used in quite a lot of companies. I think a few people offer Bugzilla administration and customization as paid service.

Mailing list

[Sympa](http://sympa.org/) is a program for managing mailing lists. You can find the list of companies providing [commercial support for Sympa](https://www.sympa.org/technical_support).

[Dada Mail](http://dadamailproject.com/) is a program for managing mailing lists. They provide some commercial services but as I can see it is well hidden on the site and I don't think anyone is making a living out of that.

[Majordomo](http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/) is one of the oldest mailing list software. It even has its own [Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majordomo_%28software%29).

Web mail

[Cider Webmail](http://ciderwebmail.org/) is a webmail application written in [Catalyst](http://www.catalystframework.org/).

Monitoring

[Munin](http://munin-monitoring.org/) is a networked resource monitoring tool. It can provide graphs of any kind of data such as CPU load or "number of new users registered" in the last 5 minutes, last day or last week.

[Opsview](http://opsview.org/) provides network and application monitoring of large, complex and distributed enterprises. It is developed by the company of the same name. If I am not mistaken the [core](http://opsview.org/solutions/core) is open source, but they also have Pro and enterprise versions.

[OpenSMART](http://opensmart.sourceforge.net/) provides monitoring and reporting of large data center installations. It's focus is mainly on monitoring and reporting data about applications and middleware.

Log analyzer

[Octopussy.pm](http://octopussy.pm/) is a Perl/XML Logs Analyzer, Alerter and Reporter.

[AWstats](http://awstats.sourceforge.net/) is a log analyzer. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWStats)

[Squid log analyzer](http://squidanalyzer.darold.net/) and [mirmon](http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~penni101/mirmon/) to monitor the status of mirrors.

[W3Perl](http://w3perl.com/) is logfile analyzer for Web / FTP / Squid / CUPS / DHCP and Mail servers.

[Yaala](http://www.yaala.org/) is an analyzer for all kinds of logfiles. As I can see there has been no major activity on the mailing list at all.

[Logwatch](http://sourceforge.net/projects/logwatch/) is a customizable log analysis system. Logwatch parses through your system's logs and creates a report analyzing areas that you specify. Logwatch is easy to use and will work right out of the package on most systems.

[SEC - simple event correlator](http://simple-evcorr.sourceforge.net/) to correlate events during a log file analysis.

Games

[Frozen-Bubble](http://www.frozen-bubble.org/) is one of the most well known Perl products, even though most people don't know that it is written in Perl using the [Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL)](http://sdl.perl.org/).

[Lacuna Expanse](http://lacunaexpanse.com/) is the Massively Multi-player Online Space Strategy Game developed by [Plain Black](http://plainblack.com/). The source code can be found on [GitHub](https://github.com/plainblack/Lacuna-Server-Open). The web site of the game, and the game itself, are awesome. Very addictive!

Desktop Applications

[The Shutter Project](http://shutter-project.org/) has one of best looking web sites among the ones listed here. This might not be surprising as Shutter is a screen-shot tool.

Enterprise applications

Koha is a software application for library management developed and supported by the [Koha Community](http://www.koha-community.org/). There are [several companies support Koha](http://koha-community.org/support/paid-support/). One of them is called [LibLime](http://www.liblime.com/).

Apparently this company actually has a fork of Koha and there is a tension between this company and the rest of the Koha community. I am still trying to figure out what's going on there.

[Evergreen Open ILS](http://evergreen-ils.org/) is a software for libraries that helps library patrons find library materials, and helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate those materials.

[Ledger SMB](http://ledgersmb.org/) and Open Source ERP: accounting, CRM and more. LedgerSMB is an acronym for Ledger Small Medium Business, often abbreviated as LSMB.

[EplSite ETL](http://sourceforge.net/projects/eplsiteetl/) is a tool to do easy the data migrations, doing extraction, transformation, validation and load in a very fast way.

[Dezi](http://dezi.org/) is an HTTP-based search platform capable of indexing multiple document formats (HTML, XML, PDF, DOC, XLS, etc) and returning faceted results in a variety of formats (XML, JSON). It is also available [on CPAN](https://metacpan.org/pod/Dezi).

E-commerce

[Interchange CMS](http://www.icdevgroup.org/) is a customizable content management system (CMS) with transaction management capability. There is a list of companies providing commercial support for Interchange.

[SurfShop](http://www.surfshopcart.com/) - web store system - shopping cart.

[AgoraCart](http://www.agoracart.com/), is an ecommerce shopping cart software installable via cPanel and other web hosting control panels.

Tools for Sysadmins

[SpamAssassin](http://spamassassin.apache.org/) is the well known SPAM filter software. It is part of the [Apache Software Foundation](http://apache.org). This is just one of the many projects, unrelated to the web server, that are managed by the ASF.

[Webmin](http://webmin.com/) is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. It has several plugins, some of those are dual-licensed. One is an open source license the other one includes some commercial extension. The company around it is called [Virtualmin](http://virtualmin.com/).

[Lemon LDAP-ng](http://lemonldap-ng.org/) is a web access system providing AAA protection. (Authentication Authorization Accounting) (I have to admit I am not sure what does that mean.) This is the other web site that would be the winner for being beautiful.

[Backup PC](http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) is, not surprisingly a backup system for Linux, Windows, and Mac. Unfortunately it has not seen any activity in the last year or so. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BackupPC).

[Amavis](http://www.amavis.org/) is a high-performance interface between mailer (MTA) and content checkers: virus scanners, and/or SpamAssassin. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amavis).

[POPFile](http://getpopfile.org/) is an Automatic Email Classification system to sort e-mails and fight spam.

[web-sorrow](https://code.google.com/p/web-sorrow/) a versatile security scanner for the information disclosure and fingerprinting phases of pentesting.

[Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP)](http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/assp/) is a platform-independent transparent SMTP proxy server. Wikipedia. (The assp.sourceforge.net link was redirecting.)

[plainvm](https://github.com/mgechev/plainvm) to control multiple Virual Machines which are distributed among many hosts through your browser.

[Ashafix](http://ashafix.net/) is a Postfixadmin clone in Perl using the [Mojolicious](/mojolicious) framework.

[Torrus](http://torrus.org/) The Data Series Processing Framework.

[NetDisco](http://www.netdisco.org/) Network Management Tool.

[MRTG - The Multi Router Traffic Grapher](http://www.mrtg.org/) for traffic monitoring.

[SmokePing](http://www.smokeping.org/) for keeping track of your network latency.

[Fusion Inventory](http://fusioninventory.org/) helps you keep an inventory of computers in your system. Commercial support is provided by a number of companies, all of them in France. The source code is available on [CPAN](https://metacpan.org/author/FUSINV) as well.

Tools for developers

[Tinderbox](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinderbox_%28software%29) is a tool to help continuous integration by running build on several machines. For a long time it was developed and maintained by Mozilla, but if I am not mistaken it is now handled elsewhere. It does not seem to have a "home".

There is also [Gitolite](https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite) which a git repository management software (access permissions, creating new repositories etc., but e.g. no web interface). See also [Git](http://gitolite.com/gitolite/) e.g. see [Git on Gitolite](http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-on-the-Server-Gitolite)

[ack](http://betterthangrep.com/) - small grep replacement, especially for programmers.

Tools for Perl Developers
[Perl Application Development and Refactoring Environment](http://padre.perlide.org) (Padre) is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) written in Perl for Perl developers.

[Perlito](http://perlito.org/) - a compiler collection that implements a (subset) of Perl 5 and Perl 6.

[PSGI/Plack](http://plackperl.org/), an interface between Perl web applications and web servers.

[Perlbrew](http://www.perlbrew.pl/) is a admin-free perl installation management tool.

[Perl Critic](http://perlcritic.com/) is a web service providing source code analyses using the well known Perl::Critic module. This too is for Perl developers. That's the reason I have not included it in the table.

[DBIx::Class or DBIC](http://www.dbix-class.org/) is an extensible and flexible Object/Relational Mapper (ORM).

[Catalyst - Perl MVC framework](/catalyst)

[Perl Dancer](/dancer), a simple but powerful web application framework.

[Mojolicious](/mojolicious), a next generation web framework for the Perl programming language.

Some more Perl projects

These projects probably should/could have their own site on their own domain:

[Kephra](http://kephra.sourceforge.net/) by Herbert Breunung.

[Perl::Tidy](http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/)

[Marpa](http://jeffreykegler.github.com/Marpa-web-site/)

Scientific Software

[Demeter](http://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/) is a comprehensive system for processing and analyzing X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy data.

Database related Applications

[QDepo](http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpda-qrt/), a desktop application for retrieving and exporting data from relational database systems to spreadsheet files.

[Tpda3 (Tiny Perl Database Application 3)](http://tpda.s2i2.ro/) A classic desktop database application framework and run-time. [Sourceforge](http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpda/)

[Sqitch](http://sqitch.org/) Simple, command line SQL change management tool written by [David E. Wheeler](https://twitter.com/Theory).

Other
(Still being categorized)

[GNU parallel](http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/) to run jobs in parallel.

[MusicBrainz](http://musicbrainz.org/) is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. It is backed by a non-profit organization of the same name. They provide both server and client applications. The server side is written in Perl.

[Natural Docs](http://naturaldocs.org/) is a documentation generator for multiple programming languages.

[Xuheki](http://www.xuheki.com/)

[Plans Calendar](http://www.planscalendar.com/)

[Codestriker](http://codestriker.sourceforge.net/)

[DAD (very old)](http://www.sklar.com/page/article/dad)

[PAC Manager](https://sites.google.com/site/davidtv/)

[GPrename](http://gprename.sourceforge.net/)

[Slic3r](http://slic3r.org/) is a multi-platform self-executable desktop application which manipulates 3D meshes with several geometric algorithms to produce G-code instructions for 3D printers. It's got an active forum and an IRC channel on FreeNode with 80 people in it. The project is almost a one-man work but is sponsored/funded by several businesses and tens of donations.

[Proxmox Virtual Environment](http://pve.proxmox.com/) is an Open Source Server Virtualization Platform, uses perl for the server side part.

[cloc](http://cloc.sourceforge.net/)

[ePrints](http://www.eprints.org/)

[The Evergreen project - Open ILS](http://www.open-ils.org/)

[PISG - Perl IRC Statistics Generator](http://pisg.sourceforge.net/)

[Helios](http://helios.logicalhelion.org/) a system for building asynchronous distributed job processing applications.

[DJabberd](https://github.com/djabberd/DJabberd) is a Jabber/XMPP server also [available from CPAN](https://metacpan.org/release/DJabberd).

[Perlbal](https://github.com/perlbal/) is a reverse-proxy load balancer. [Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlbal) and Perlbal on CPAN .

[GCstar](http://www.gcstar.org/) is an application for managing your collections written in GTK2 and Perl.

[Act - A Conference Toolkit](http://act.mongueurs.net/) is a web application to handle conferences. AFAIK currently it used by YAPCs and Perl Workshops only.

[Oracletool](http://www.oracletool.com/) A web based tool for Oracle DBA's.

[pDLNA](http://www.pdlna.com/) Media Server is an UPnP and DLNA service which serves multimedia content to compatible clients.

[Zentyal](http://www.zentyal.org/) is a Small Business Linux server built and supported by the company with the same name: [Zentyal](http://www.zentyal.com/).

[TTYtter](http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/) is a command line Twitter client.

[F*EX](http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/) Frams' Fast File EXchange. Web-based sending of files of ANY size to ANY recipient.

[fstools - Frams' Shell Tools](http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fstools/) a bunch of small command line utilities.

[(R)?ex](http://rexify.org) manages all your boxes from a central point through the complete process of configuration management and software deployment.

[QVD](http://theqvd.com), a VDI platform for Linux.

[App::Asciio](https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Asciio) allows you to draw ASCII diagrams in a modern, but simple graphical application.

[Logitech Squeezebox Server](http://www.mysqueezebox.com/), a streaming server for Logitech Squeezebox line of Internet radios supporting both its own SLIM protocol and DLNA. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_Media_Server)

[Eekboek](http://www.eekboek.nl/) - an accounting software for The Netherlands.

[xCAT](http://xcat.sourceforge.net/) Perl base Extreme Cloud Administration from IBM

[ELSA](http://code.google.com/p/enterprise-log-search-and-archive/) Enterprise log search and archive (ELSA) is an industrial-strength solution for centralized log management.

[Packet Fence](http://www.packetfence.org/) is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) solution.

[Smolder](https://github.com/smolder/smolder) for collecting test results in TAP format.

[LXR](http://lxr.sourceforge.net/) to cross reference the source code of any project.

[LinuxCOE](http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxcoe/)

[FAI - Fully Automatic Installation](http://fai-project.org/)

[Publican](https://fedorahosted.org/publican/) a single source publishing tool based on DocBook XML.

[remOcular](http://www.remocular.org/), provides a AJAX web interface to Unix command line tools like traceroute, top, mpstat.

[Extopus - The Monitoring Aggregator](http://www.extopus.org/)

[DbToRia](http://www.dbtoria.org/) a Database to Rich Internet Application.

[Freeside](http://www.freeside.biz/freeside/) open-source billing, CRM, trouble ticketing, network monitoring and provisioning automation software for ISPs and WISPs, VoIP providers.

[glNetViz](http://gpp256.zapto.org/glNetViz/docs/en/html/index.html) is a tool for visualizing computer network topologies with WebGL.

[GitPrep](http://gitprep.org/) a GitHub clone based on [Mojolicious](/mojolicious). [Source code](https://github.com/yuki-kimoto/gitprep) by [Yuki Kimoto](https://github.com/yuki-kimoto/).

[Questhub](http://questhub.io/) is a public and social task manager written by [Vyacheslav Matyukhin](https://github.com/berekuk). It is using [Perl Dancer](/dancer). Source code is on [GitHub](https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/)

[WebKeePass](https://github.com/sukria/WebKeePass) a [Perl Dancer](/dancer) based web-interface to all your passwords. Written by [Alexis Sukrieh](http://blog.sukria.net/2013/08/27/webkeepass-or-how-to-build-your-own-cloud-aware-keyring/).

[App::TimeTracker](http://timetracker.plix.at/) time tracking for impatient and lazy command line lovers

[mt-aws](http://mt-aws.com/) is a multi-threaded synchronization tool from Linux to the [Amazon Glacier](http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/), a low-cost storage system.

[Circos](http://circos.ca/) tools for visualizing data, used in particular in the biological scientific community.

[KJabberd](https://github.com/akarelas/KJabberd) is a Jabber server.

[st](https://github.com/nferraz/st) - simple statistics from the command line interface (CLI).

[Rex](http://rexify.org/) a DevOps tool not unlike Puppet or Chef in other languages.

[Project Builder](http://www.project-builder.org/) is a tool for simplifying the process of building packages for multiple operating systems from source.

[gRSShopper](http://grsshopper.downes.ca/) a personal web environment.

[fixmystreet](https://github.com/mysociety/fixmystreet) mySociety's popular street problem reporting platform. [Home of FixMyStreet](http://code.fixmystreet.com/).

[XMLTV](http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltv/) is a set of programs to process TV (tvguide) listings and manage your TV viewing, storing listings in an XML format. There are backends to download TV listings for several countries, filter programs and Perl libraries to process listings.

[GNU Stow](http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/) is a symlink farm manager.

[SmoothWall Express](http://www.smoothwall.org/) firewall solution uses Perl as its web interface.

[nmis - Network Management Information System](https://opmantek.com/)

[Biber: A BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX](http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/)

[Warrick: a tool to help recover websites from archives](https://arcwarrick.org/)

[Kivitendo ERP/CRM](http://www.kivitendo.de/)

[Logitech Media Server](http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Logitech_Media_Server) for use with their Squeezeboxes.

[pgBadger](http://dalibo.github.io/pgbadger/) a fast PostgreSQL log analyzer.

[ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info/) is a wiki compiler.

[Shorewall](http://shorewall.net/) is a gateway/firewall configuration tool for GNU/Linux.

[Asternic](http://www.asternic.org/), a flash operations panel for asterisk. which the server side is Perl and the client is Flash.

[Wrangler](http://www.clipland.com/wrangler), a desktop file manager with sophisticated metadata handling capabilities.

[Webwork](http://webwork.maa.org/wiki), an online homework system for mathematics. Source code in [GitHub](http://github.com/openwebwork)

Not Open Source

There are a number of non-open source Perl-based products. I am going to create a separate list of those too, for now let me list them here:

[Social Text](http://www.socialtext.com/). It has hosted version at [Social Text.net](http://www.socialtext.net/). [The Perl Foundation wiki](https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/) is running on it.

[Radiator](http://www.open.com.au/radiator/) is a RADIUS server

[Live Journal](http://www.livejournal.com/) a shared blogging community system.

Comments

Thanks for putting this list together Gabor. We need more advocacy of what great software has been written in Perl so we can support it and build a more cohesive community.

If you do any work on the command line, then you really need to install ack. I just found it myself a few weeks ago and it's a fantastic search tool. Not only is it fast, it returns the results in a highly readable format and allows you to customize it however you like. I hadn't heard about it before, so I think this is a real gem that needs to be promoted more.

Useful list there Gabor!
Not open source, but another Perl application to add to your separate list is MIDAS (a room booking system) https://mid.as/