ActiveState - The Dynamic Language Experts

About ActiveState

ActiveState is the world leader in enabling companies to develop, manage, and distribute applications with dynamic languages. Our products and services for Perl, Python, Tcl and other web languages are used by over 2 million developers and 97% of the Fortune 1000, to build and run applications from mission-critical to open source projects. Our end-to-end solutions include development tools, language distributions, indemnification, OEM solutions, support and other services. With these, customers such as Cisco, CA, HP, Bank of America, Siemens, and Lockheed Martin are able to accelerate productivity, minimize risk, and ensure compliance.

Our Commitment to Open Source

At ActiveState, we are firmly rooted and committed to the open source dynamic language communities as supporters and contributors. Our technical leaders are active contributors to the core Perl, Python, and Tcl language distributions. With their expertise, they also provide technical support and best practices advice to our enterprise customers.

Our ActivePerl, ActivePython, ActiveTcl language distributions and developer tools (Komodo IDE, Perl Dev Kit, Tcl Dev Kit) are renowned for their quality and are relied upon by millions of developers worldwide. We continue to provide our Community Edition language distributions and Komodo Edit free to the community! That way, programmers can be more productive in their day-to-day development, and leave the tools, packaging, and license compliance to our experts.

Our Values

We have a mindset for growth and play an active role growing Perl, Python, and Tcl in the communities and in the enterprise.

We are open, honest, and respectful of the varying needs of the communities and businesses we serve.

We value working with others and work cooperatively as a team, with our customers and partners, and with the open source community.

We are passionate about learning to grow, expand our horizons, and innovate.

We are driven to make a difference in the communities we serve.

Customers

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Investors

ActiveState is owned by its employees and Pender Financial Group, a private merchant bank focused on technology in British Columbia.