ActiveState
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| Founded 📆 | 1997 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , Canada |
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Key people | Bart Copeland (CEO) |
| Products 📟 | ActivePerl, ActivePython, ActiveTcl, Komodo IDE |
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| 🌐 Website | www |
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ActiveState is a Canadian software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. It develops, sells, and supports cross-platform development tools for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, as well as language distributions and enterprise services.
ActiveState products include ActiveState Komodo, an integrated development environment (IDE) for dynamic languages; Perl Dev Kit (PDK) and Tcl Dev Kit (TDK), productivity and deployment tools for Perl and Tcl programmers; and free and commercial language distributions, ActivePerl, ActivePython, and ActiveTcl for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, OS X, Solaris, and Windows.
ActivePython is a software package consisting of the Python implementation CPython and a set of extensions, packaged to facilitate installation.[1] As of 2006, it ran on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX platforms.[2] ActivePython for Windows includes the PyWin32 extensions for programming with the Win32 API.[3]
In October 2006, ActiveState was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, as published in Maclean's magazine.[4]
In February 2012, ActiveState announced the availability of Stackato, which makes it easy to develop, deploy, migrate, scale, manage, and monitor applications on any cloud. It is available in Enterprise, Micro Cloud, and Sandbox editions.[5]
In December 2012, ActiveState announced the OEM integration of Stackato with HP Cloud Services, specifically the HP Cloud Application Platform as a Service.[6]
In July 2015, HP acquired Stackato from ActiveState.[7]
ActiveState is owned by its employees and Pender Financial Group, an investment company focused on technology and healthcare sectors in British Columbia.[8]
References[edit]
- ↑ Boswell, William (2003). Inside Windows Server 2003. Addison-Wesley Professional. p. 717. Search this book on
- ↑ Martelli, Alex (2006). Python in a Nutshell. O'Reilly. p. 19. Search this book on
- ↑ Martelli, Alex; Ravenscroft, Anna; Ascher, David (2005). Python Cookbook. O'Reilly. p. 326. Search this book on
- ↑ "Reasons for Selection, 2007 Canada's Top 100 Employers".
- ↑ "ActiveState Unveils Stackato 1.0, the Application Platform for Creating a Private PaaS".
- ↑ "ActiveState Announces HP OEM Licensing Agreement for Platform as a Service with Stackato".
- ↑ "HP Buys ActiveState's PaaS, Stackato". InformationWeek.
- ↑ ActiveState - Corporate Information - The Dynamic Language Experts
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