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Stackato 2.6.7 Released (with new features!)

By Brent Smithurst, December 20, 2012

Stackato 2.6 Hot on the heels of Stackato 2.6.6, we're excited to make Stackato 2.6.7 available today. As usual, the forum announcement and release notes have the change list.

OpenStack Comes of Age

By Diane Mueller, December 20, 2012

In the last few years, the ActiveState team was singing the blues more than once when deploying, stress testing, and versioning Stackato in fluctuating, early release, and poorly documented cloud environments. In this context, the OpenStack latest release called “Folsom release” is truly liberating for the open source cloud platform.

Enterprise Java and Stackato

By John Wetherill, December 20, 2012

EnterpriseTwitter recently and publicly announced that by swapping out Ruby for Java and JVM-based Scala, they were able to survive the US election.

Saving Keystrokes with Macro-Like Snippets

By Eric Promislow, December 19, 2012

Snippets and macros have been a part of Komodo since the beginning. Snippets are for inserting frequently-used pieces of boilerplate text into documents. They have some pre-canned functionality in their shortcuts, but can't be extended.

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The Twelve Developers of Christmas: Kevin kj Woolley, Swan Whisperer

By Isabelle Groc, December 18, 2012

This month, we celebrate twelve Stackato ActiveState developers who share thoughts about the product, little known facts about them, and what they want for Christmas.

Hey #Dell! Welcome to the #CloudFoundry Party! #PaaS the Open Source, Please!

By Diane Mueller, December 17, 2012

The Twitter-sphere blew up this morning, as -->

The Twelve Developers of Christmas: Tara Gibbs, Lady Dancing

By Isabelle Groc, December 14, 2012

This month, we celebrate twelve Stackato ActiveState developers who share thoughts about the product, little known facts about them, and what they want for Christmas.

Why HP Chose Stackato and Why It Matters

By Diane Mueller, December 14, 2012

Last week at the HP Discover conference in Frankfurt, Germany, HP’s Biri Singh announced—to some fanfare—the HP Cloud Application PaaS powered by Stackato from ActiveState. Needless to say, it was a big week for HP customers, a big week for ActiveState, and an even bigger week for enterprise PaaS customers.

The Twelve Developers of Christmas: Dan Razzell, Cougar Tamer

By Isabelle Groc, December 13, 2012

This month, we celebrate twelve Stackato ActiveState developers who share thoughts about the product, little known facts about them, and what they want for Christmas.

NoOps versus NoDevs: Keeping the Neighbors Happy with PaaS

By Kevin "kj" Woolley, December 12, 2012

Developers (Devs) and Operations (Ops) rarely get along in an organization. While developers focus on self-service, rapid deployment, framework, and package flexibility, operations staff members are more interested in a consistent and reliable infrastructure, control over resource allocation, and relief from multiple deployment requests. Staff working on both sides often get frustrated, and tend to ignore each other. Developers want “NoOps,” and operations want “NoDevs.” However both Devs and Ops work for the same organization.