ActiveState Perl is more suitable for enterprise needs. While Strawberry Perl is a popular and excellent community-driven open source Perl distribution, it cannot provide support and maintenance agreements,, indemnification, vulnerability notifications and remediation , or many of the other capabilities essential to enterprise use of Perl. ActiveState commercial support includes access to and support for 32-bit and older Perl versions, custom Perl builds, guaranteed SLA’s, and security and license reporting. See Plans & Pricing for more information.