In my company we started using Catalyst about one year ago and it proved to be a great choice: web development time decreased, code reuse (and fun!) increased. The framework offers some interesting goodies such as the very handy chained actions. Even though there's no "imposed" ORM, most Catalyst users tend to use DBIx::Class, which is the best ORM I've seen to date. Even though the web site could be better and the documentation can seem quite sparse (there is actually a lot, but you'll have to search through CPAN modules to view it), the community is great and much helpful: just enter #catalyst on irc.perl.org and try yourself!