Why ActiveState?

ActiveState offers end-to-end management and distribution solutions for Perl, Python and Tcl to help businesses reduce downtime, eliminate complexity, ensure compliance and reduce legal risk. Companies like Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard, Credit Suisse, First Boston and Siemens, along with over 97%  of Fortune 1000 corporations, plus many small and medium-size businesses and government organizations, rely on ActiveState's technology for their critical systems.

• Why Open Source?

  
  All software contains source code, proprietary or open source. Open source code is available to anyone that wishes to access and develop it, whereas proprietary source code is tied to one entity and further development of code is restricted to only that entity. We believe that when many developers collaborate, bugs are found and fixed more quickly than in a proprietary software model, resulting in better code and better software.
  
  ActiveState is firmly rooted in the open source community as supporters and contributors. Our dynamic language distributions leverage and build upon the improvements and bug fixes produced by open source developers by building fully tested, ready to install versions of Perl, Python and Tcl that are given back to the open source community to use free of charge.
• Why Commercial Open Source?

  Organizations who are building business-critical or mission-critical applications find the support and legal protection that comes with commercial open source very valuable. ActiveState offers commercial and enterprise grade language distributions for Perl, Python and Tcl. With ActiveState's Business Solutions, companies can rest assured that they are protected against legal risks and guaranteed a swift response from technical experts when they need it.    
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Building a business-critical or a mission-critical application with Perl, Python or Tcl?

Choose the solution that fits your needs here.

Business Edition for Perl, Python or Tcl

ActiveState Business Edition is our newest offering, integrating commercial support and access to platform builds and repositories for AIX, Solaris and HP-UX plus older versions across all platforms. It is ideal for finance, aerospace &  defense, and government organizations with small deployments of Perl, Python and Tcl in internal business-critical applications.

Learn more about ActiveState Business Edition.

• Highlights

  • Exclusive access to AIX, Solaris and HP-UX builds and repositories
    
  • Access to older versions across all platforms
  • Fulfills requirements to have commercially supported open source products
  • Keeps your intellectual property safe
  • Offers dynamic languages expertise at your fingertips at a minimal cost
  • Frees up precious development time to focus on your core competencies
  • Ensures maximum uptime for your business-critical applications

Enterprise Edition for Perl, Python or Tcl

ActiveState Enterprise Edition offers enterprise grade support, indemnification and dynamic languages expertise along with its quality assured, stable and secure ActivePerl  builds. Enterprise Edition is ideal for organizations with large deployments of Perl, Python or Tcl in mission-critical applications.

• Highlights

  • Intellectual Property indemnification
  • Enterprise-grade support backed by a Service Level Agreement
  • Unlimited support incidents every year
  • Pre-compiled standardized builds that are fully up to date
  • Guaranteed quality with rigorously tested builds
  • Enterprise-wide licensing
  • Quarterly fixes and updates, delivered electronically
  • Design and development advice from language experts

Choose your distribution:

ActivePerl Enterprise Edition

ActivePython Enterprise Edition

ActiveTcl Enterprise Edition

OEM Edition for Perl, Python or Tcl

ActiveState OEM Edition offers turn-key redistribution rights and commercial support to guarantee assurance and mitigate legal risks for software and hardware vendors redistributing ActivePerl, ActivePython or ActiveTcl with their software/hardware.

• Highlights

  • Provides royalty-free redistribution
  • Mitigates risk through Intellectual Property indemnification
  • Saves days of developer time
  • Assists customers in bringing their products to market faster
  • Provides enterprise-grade support backed by a Service Level Agreement

Choose your distribution:

ActivePerl OEM Edition

ActivePython OEM Edition

ActiveTcl OEM Edition