Booking.com™ is the world leader in booking accommodation online.
Each day, over 700,000 room nights are reserved on Booking.com.
The Booking.com website and apps attract visitors from both the leisure
and business sectors worldwide. Established in 1996, Booking.com B.V.
guarantees the best prices for every type of property, from small,
family-run bed and breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star
luxury suites. Booking.com has sponsored several perl events
worldwide, has donated money to Perl 5 Development and many of its
engineers are regular speakers and attendants to YAPCs and Workshops.
Víntegris designs, implements and manages information security
infrastructures for Spain's leading financial institutions and
large corporations. It provides customised robust solutions
to meet business needs, integrating high-performance technologies
and bridging the gap between standardised products and the needs
of each company. Our solutions in critical segments such as digital
certificate management, control and auditing and user authentication
bring added value to their respective segments and are fully endorsed
by the market. Víntegris is currently using Perl to develop aid tools
for the development and improvement of its products.
Soysuper.com is an online supermarket where you can compare groceries
prices from 7 supermarkets in Spain, create your cart with real time
price comparison and choose where to send you cart to get your stuff
delivered home. We build most of our backend services using perl and
we also contribute back to CPAN.
CAPSiDE is a systems engineering company. Its value proposition
involves boosting its clients' business through the design,
implementation and 24x7 engineering of highly efficient, scalable and
reliable systems architectures. CAPSiDE has been programming in perl
for years and some of the engineers are regular participants in the
local community of Perl Mongers. CAPSiDE has also cooperated several
times by hosting the community's monthly meeting in its offices or
sponsoring similar events.
The Department of Computer Architecture (DAC) at the
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) carries outs
research and education in the areas of Computer Architecture,
Computer Networks and Operating Systems. The DAC is responsible
for graduate and master courses in programs offered by several
engineering schools. Moreover, it is also responsible for master
and doctorate programs. The research carried out by the DAC
is organized in several research groups. Their scientific
production is published in top conferences and journals.
Both researchers and IT staff use Perl on several projects.