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Press Releases & Announcements

2006

12/13/2006
Komodo 4.0 Beta 3 now available
Take a dragon home for the holidays.

12/07/2006
Tcl Dev Kit 4.0 Beta 1 now available
Testers wanted!

11/27/2006
Komodo 4.0 Beta 2 now available
Testers wanted!

11/27/2006
Perl Dev Kit 7.0 Beta 1 now available
Join the beta team!

10/27/2006
ActiveState introduces multi-language IDE for end-to-end dynamic web development
Komodo 4.0 showcased at Zend/PHP Conference & Expo

10/23/2006
Komodo Alpha 7 now available
Redesigned code intelligence backend, multi-language file support, PHP "zero configuration"

10/12/2006
ActiveState Announces Tcl ActiveAward Winner
Presented at 13th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference

09/21/2006
Komodo 4.0 Alpha 6 now available
XML/HTML autocomplete/calltip support, help browser, project templates and more

09/18/2006
ActiveState launches redesigned online store
New "My Account" section and more

07/25/2006
Komodo 4.0 Alpha 3 now available
HTTP Inspector, JavaScript Interactive Shell, Live Import, and more

07/25/2006
ActiveState Previews Komodo 4.0 at O'Reilly Open Source Convention
Award-winning IDE for dynamic languages adds end-to-end web development capabilities

07/09/2006
Don't miss the 8th Annual Open Source Convention
Meet the ActiveState team and preview the upcoming release of Komodo 4.0

06/28/2006
TDK is "easy purchase for developers"
UnixReview.com praises Tcl Dev Kit's high value and ease of use

06/15/2006
ActivePerl 5.8.8.818 Beta 1 now available
New PPM 4 client and directory changes

04/05/2006
Komodo IDE named finalist in eWEEK Excellence Awards
Recognized in Application Development Category

03/20/2006
Komodo IDE Wins Jolt Productivity Award
Finalist in Jolt Product Excellence Awards

02/21/2006
ActiveState Acquired by Employees and Pender Financial Group
Company renews focus on tools and solutions for dynamic languages

01/30/2006
ActiveState To Spin Out
Pender Financial Enters Agreement to Acquire ActiveState

01/23/2006
Komodo Nominated for Best Development Environment
Finalist in 16th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards

2005

11/30/2005
ActiveState Releases First Professional Ruby IDE for Linux and Windows
ActiveState Komodo 3.5 for Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl, and Ruby now available on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

11/03/2005
ActiveState Ships Komodo 3.5 With Full Ruby Support For Mac OS X
First Professional Ruby IDE for Developers

11/01/2005
Ruby on Rails Dev Framework on Track for Growth eWeek
eWeek Explores the Vibrant and Growing Ruby Ecosystem

10/12/2005
Test Drive Komodo 3.5 Beta 2 for Mac OS X and Alpha 1 for Windows & Linux
Now with full Ruby support!

09/29/2005
Podcast: Perl Features in Komodo
PerlCast interview with senior Komodo developer Shane Caraveo.

08/23/2005
ActiveState Adds Expect for Windows to ActiveTcl
The popular automation tool is now free for download.

08/02/2005
Preview ActiveState Komodo 3.X Alpha for Mac OS X
Code. Test. Play. Cheer. We have Mac OS X developer tools.

07/29/2005
You're done reading Slashdot, now what?
Check out ActiveState's new Blog for more stuff that matters

07/29/2005
Join ActiveState at OSCON

07/07/2005
ActiveState expands free dynamic language distributions to AIX and HP-UX

06/28/2005
ActiveState Releases ActivePerl, ActivePython & ActiveTcl for Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System
ActiveState Delivers Popular Language Distributions Hot on the Heels of Solaris 10

06/07/2005
ActiveState Launches ActivePerl, ActivePython & ActiveTcl for Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger"
ActiveState's World-Renowned Open Source Language Distributions are Free to the Developer Community

02/16/2005
ActiveState a LinuxWorld Award Winner
Komodo 3.1 Wins LinuxWorld's Product Excellence Award for Best Application Development Tool; The Cross-Platform Dynamic Languages IDE is the Top Linux Development Tool

02/15/2005
Developing on Linux gets professional with Komodo 3.1
ActiveState's popular IDE gives programmers a slicker Linux experience and Subversion support

02/07/2005
ActiveState a LinuxWorld Award Finalist
ActiveState's Komodo IDE wins recognition for Linux excellence

01/05/2005
Join ActiveState at LinuxWorld Boston
February 15-17, 2005

2004

11/10/2004
ActiveState Releases Perl Dev Kit 6.0
Major Update to Industry-Standard Development Toolkit

10/14/2004
Coolest Tk Screenshot Winners Announced
Presented at Tcl/Tk Conference

09/07/2004
Enter the Coolest Tk Screenshot Contest
Win ActiveTcl Pro Studio!

07/27/2004
ActiveState Releases Komodo 3.0
Powerful IDE deepens support for dynamic languages

07/26/2004
ActiveState Announces Focus on Dynamic Languages
New Industry Whitepaper: "Dynamic Languages — Ready for the Next Challenges, By Design"

05/11/2004
InfoWorld's Top 10 tools of the trade
Perl most valuable IT tool; ActivePerl best Windows version

04/14/2004
Komodo Chosen as Codie Awards Finalist
Best Software Development Product for 2004

04/06/2004
Expect for Windows 1.0
ActiveState unleashes the power of Expect

03/18/2004
Visual XSLT 2.0: Save hours of development time
Visual Studio Magazine review

03/03/2004
Learning Python?
Read the new bestselling book by ActiveState's Chief Technologist

02/10/2004
ActiveState Valentine's Day Perl Haikus

01/20/2004
Perl Haiku Poetry Contest
Tell us why you love Perl

01/12/2004
PHP Vancouver Conference: January 22-23, 2004

2003

12/18/2003
ActiveState Celebrates Perl's Sweet Sixteen

12/08/2003
New Standard for Tcl Programming Tools Now Available from ActiveState
Tcl Dev Kit 3.0 Most Technically Advanced Tcl Toolset Ever

11/17/2003
ActiveState Announces Appointment of David Ascher as Chief Technologist

10/28/2003
Debug XSLT/XML Applications "On-the-fly"
Only available with ActiveState Visual XSLT 2.0 for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the upcoming Microsoft Visual Studio "Whidbey"

09/24/2003
Supplementary Release: ActiveState Acquired By Anti-Virus Leader Sophos

09/24/2003
Sophos Acquires Anti-Spam Specialist ActiveState
Combined company poised for global leadership in enterprise anti-virus and anti-spam protection

09/17/2003
ActiveState Releases First Professional IDE for Open Source Programming Languages on Solaris
Komodo IDE for Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, & XSLT at SunNetwork Conference

09/10/2003
ActiveState Summer 2003 Newsletter
The latest news, events, and resources

08/27/2003
PureMessage Protects Enterprises from Dangerous New Threat
Software Identifies Combined Spam and Virus Propagation Techniques

08/20/2003
PureMessage is #1 Anti-Spam Solution for Higher Education
ActiveState Spam Protection Gets an A+ with Top-Tier Schools Including Stanford, Duke, and Cornell

08/13/2003
ActiveState Named One of Canada's Fastest Growing Technology Companies
Honored as "Fast 50 2003" Winner by Deloitte & Touche

08/06/2003
Komodo by ActiveState Wins "Best Development Tool" at LinuxWorld

08/06/2003
PureMessage by ActiveState Wins "Best Sys Admin Tool" at LinuxWorld

07/31/2003
Congratulations to 2003 Tcl Active Award Winners
Presented at Tcl/Tk Conference

07/29/2003
ActiveState Supports New Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) Program
Innovative marketing and licensing facilitates outreach to millions of programmers

07/22/2003
ActiveState Anti-Spam Task Force Exposes Spammers' Tricks
"Field Guide to Spam" Reveals the Most Popular, Complex, and Insidious Techniques

07/09/2003
Congratulations to 2003 Active Award Winners
Presented at O'Reilly Open Source Conference

06/18/2003
ActiveState & Ositis partner on all-in-one security appliance
ActiveState selected to provide spam protection for Ositis' eShield and WinProxy products

06/17/2003
ActiveState Spring 2003 Newsletter
The latest news, events, and resources

06/04/2003
Active Awards Programmers' Choice Nominees are in!
Vote for your favorite

06/02/2003
ActiveState's Komodo IDE honored in SD Times 100
Named "First Professional IDE for Scripting Languages"

05/23/2003
ActiveState Adds Marketing and Financing Expertise to its Board
New Chair and Board Members To Help With Latest Stage of Growth

05/13/2003
ActiveState Achieves Record Growth
Massive demand for anti-spam software fuels company expansion

05/12/2003
ActiveState Active Awards
Vote for your favorite programmer

05/06/2003
ActiveState PureMessage Controls the "Other Half" of Email Communication
Enterprises empowered with web-based policy builder console

04/29/2003
ActiveState Launches Anti-Spam OEM Program
PureMessage OEM partners deliver seamless anti-spam protection

04/24/2003
ActiveState Ships Complete Suite for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
New Tools for Perl, Python, and XSLT Available Now

03/31/2003
ActiveState Anti-Spam Task Force Established
Experts Vow to "Out-Innovate" Spammers

03/24/2003
ActiveState & O'Reilly Deepen Partnership
Safari Electronic Reference Library added to ASPN

03/18/2003
ActiveState Winter 2002/2003 Newsletter
The latest news, events, resources

02/11/2003
ActiveState Unveils PerlASPX 1.0
Perl for Microsoft ASP.NET Web Servers Now Available

02/01/2003
PureMessage: "A Fine Application" for Reducing Spam
Review, Unixreview.com

01/31/2003
Komodo 2.0 Takes a Bite Out of Development
Review, Builder.com

01/28/2003
PureMessage Deals Blow to New Spamming Technique
Image Spam 1/4 of all Email in Large Organizations

01/16/2003
PureMessage and Komodo Chosen as Award Finalists
Product Excellence

2002

12/18/2002
ActiveState Updates Perl Development Portfolio
Rapid Development on ASP.NET, Linux, .NET, Solaris, & Windows

12/12/2002
Komodo Chosen as Finalist in Codie Awards
Best Software Development Product for 2003

11/25/2002
ActiveState Unveils PureMessage
Relieves administrative burden of email protection

11/13/2002
ActiveState Fall 2002 Newsletter
The latest news, events, and resources

11/01/2002
ActiveState Releases New Linux-based IDE and Server-based Email Filtering Gateway at LISA
Komodo 2.0 and PerlMx 3.0 beta now available

10/21/2002
ActiveState's PerlMx Offers Integrated Anti-Spam Solution with McAfee Security Anti-Virus Protection

10/09/2002
Programming Perl in the .NET Environment
New book on ActiveState PerlNET - free with new ASPN Perl membership

09/30/2002
ActiveState chosen as Venture All Star for 2002
Annual Award Honors Pacific Northwest's Top Venture-Backed Companies

09/25/2002
ActiveState Unveils Industry's First Professional Workspace for Open Source Languages
Komodo 2.0 with Web Services Support & GUI Builder

09/19/2002
Congratulations to the 2002 Active Award Winners for Tcl
Open language programmers recognized for excellence

09/16/2002
ActiveState Releases PerlMx 2.1
Spam, Virus and Content Filtering for any MTA

08/20/2002
Tcl Dev Kit Now Available
New Tcl tool suite based on TclPro

08/13/2002
ActiveState & HP Partner on ActivePerl for HP-UX

08/08/2002
ActiveState Expands Board & Founder Steps Aside

08/02/2002
Get Cooking with Python
Python Cookbook Now Published

07/23/2002
Congratulations to the Active Award Winners
Awards presented at OSCON

07/15/2002
New Software @ O'Reilly Open Source Conference
IDEs & Email Security Software

07/10/2002
Get Tcl'd in Vancouver
Tcl'2002 Conference Sept. 16-20

07/02/2002
Web Services for PHP
ActiveState Lecture - July 10

07/02/2002
Programmers' Choice Nominees are in!
Vote for your favorite

06/24/2002
The Active State of Tcl in Europe

06/24/2002
ActiveState at Yet Another Perl Conference

06/20/2002
ActiveState nominated by Windows & .NET Magazine for Reader's Choice Award
Vote for your favorite tool and language!

06/07/2002
Tcl Productivity Tools: TclPro and More
Free ActiveState webcast June 20

06/03/2002
Perl and the .NET Framework
Free ActiveState webcast June 6

06/03/2002
ActiveState Active Awards
Vote for your favorite programmer

05/28/2002
Spam: It's More Than Just a Black & White Issue
ActiveState Lecture Series - June 5, 2002

05/24/2002
Stopping Spam at the Server
Free ActiveState webcast May 30

05/21/2002
Perl Productivity Tools: Accelerate development with ASPN Perl
Free ActiveState webcast May 23

05/13/2002
Complete Email Security for Enterprises Now Available
ActiveState's PerlMx Captures Over 98% of Spam

04/29/2002
Introduction to Visual Perl - Perl programming in Visual Studio .NET
Free ActiveState webcast May 9

04/29/2002
ActiveState Spring Newsletter
Feature on Spam

04/12/2002
New tools for Linux, Visual Studio .NET & Web Services
ActiveState at SDWest - April 23-25, 2002

04/12/2002
New Python & Perl Web Service Modules
ActiveState's PPM modules for Google Search Engine API

04/11/2002
Congratulations to Michael Hall of Australia!
Winner of the $1000 O'Reilly Bookshelf

04/08/2002
Vancouver PHP User Group
Planning Meeting

04/03/2002
State of the Active
Quarterly Newsletter - Winter edition

02/13/2002
ActiveState development tools ship simultaneously with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Perl, Python, & XSLT Programmers get Seamless Tool Integration

02/12/2002
Camel Crossings: Perl & the Microsoft .NET Framework
ActiveState Lecture Series - Feb. 20

02/11/2002
Visualize this: XSLT, Perl & Python for Visual Studio .NET
ActiveState at VSLive

02/05/2002
Perl Dev Kit 4.0 Shipping
Support for the .NET Framework Added

01/29/2002
Python - What's cooking?
Python conference Feb. 4-7, 2002

01/23/2002
Perl Dev Kit 4.0 Beta Available Now
New PerlNET, PerlApp and PerlCtrl Functionality

01/15/2002
ActiveState & ANSYS Spearhead Tcl Toolkit for the Windows XP 64-bit Platform Running on Intel Itanium Processor-Based Systems
TCL Components Will Be Open Sourced

2001

12/18/2001
Advanced Tcl IDE & Resources Now Available
ActiveState's ASPN Tcl: Comprehensive Programming Tools & Resources

12/18/2001
ActiveState's Komodo IDE Now Shipping for Linux & Windows
XSLT & PHP added to existing Perl, Python & Tcl support

12/04/2001
Take on the Dragon - Komodo 1.2 beta for Linux & Windows
Now with Web Services Support

12/03/2001
XXXSLT - Think it's as hot as we do?
ActiveState @ XML 2001

11/28/2001
PHP - the best language for Sys Admins?
ActiveState @ LISA 2001

11/21/2001
State of the Active
Quarterly Newsletter - Fall 2001

11/08/2001
Introduction to PHP
ActiveState Lecture Series ~ Nov. 14, 2001

11/07/2001
ActiveState Adds to Board
Deepens Enterprise and Partnership Expertise

10/30/2001
Create and Consume Web Services Using Scripting Languages
ActiveState @ O'Reilly P2P & Web Services Conference

10/23/2001
New Standard for Scripting Languages and Web Services
ActiveState heads up open source initiative

10/22/2001
Perl and Python for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Now Shipping
ActiveState's Visual Perl & Visual Python Includes Support for Programming XML Web Services

10/22/2001
ActiveState Ships First Complete XSLT Tool for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Enables Rapid Development of XML Transformations

10/16/2001
Get plugged into Visual Studio .NET with Perl, Python & XSLT
ActiveState @ Microsoft Professional Developers Conference

10/16/2001
Recent Events in Python's Nest
ActiveState Lecture Series ~ Oct. 17, 2001

10/16/2001
Web Services & Scripting Languages
ActiveState @ Web Services Edge Conference

09/24/2001
ActiveState launches new Tcl support & resources
Tcl Clinic and Tcl Cookbook Now Available

09/13/2001
ActiveState & PerlWhirl
ActiveState sponsors Geek Cruise

09/10/2001
Mozilla & XML - A Thriving Relationship
ActiveState Lecture Series ~ September 19, 2001

09/06/2001
Perl and XSLT for Visual Studio .NET Now Available
ActiveState releases Visual Perl and Visual XSLT 1.0

08/27/2001
ActiveState - One of Canada's Hottest Startups
ActiveState ranked an emerging star in Canada

08/20/2001
Sink Your Teeth Into Open Source Programming
Komodo Release Candidate at LinuxWorld

07/24/2001
Use, Create and Extend .NET Components with Perl
ActiveState's New PerlNET beta now available

07/19/2001
ActiveState, .NET & Web Services
Emerging technologies at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference

07/12/2001
State of the Active
Quarterly newsletter - Summer 2001 edition

07/05/2001
Vote for Komodo
WebTechniques Programmer's Choice Award

06/21/2001
Komodo and Tux coming to Boston
ActiveState at USENIX

06/18/2001
ActiveState Announces Visual Perl, Visual Python and Visual XSLT
Additional language support for Microsoft Visual Studio.NET

06/13/2001
Perl & .NET
ActiveState Lecture Series - June 20

06/11/2001
Open Source & Visual Studio.NET
ActiveState @ Microsoft Tech-Ed 2001

06/10/2001
New Perl tool kit -- now with extra support for Linux and Solaris
PDK 3.0 Now Available

06/06/2001
Perl, Python, Parrot, & .NET...
@ Yet Another Perl Conference

05/29/2001
Perl & Python ported to Intel's Itanium processor
Binary packages available soon

05/28/2001
Regular Expression Cookbook Launched
ActiveState encouraging community contributions

05/18/2001
Vote for Perl!
Fast Company's Best-of-the-Best

05/17/2001
What do NASA, Red Hat, the US Navy & ActiveState have in common?
ActiveState Lecture Series ~ May 23

05/07/2001
ActiveState releases PerlEx 2.0:
Now with Support for Web Services

05/03/2001
Want an easy way to access our software?
ActiveCD for Windows now available

04/30/2001
State of the Active Quarterly Newsletter
Feature ~ get easily embedded

04/12/2001
XSLT - what are people so hot & bothered about?
ActiveState Lecture Series ~ April 18

04/11/2001
ActiveState launches ASPN Initiative
Easier open source programming

04/10/2001
Komodo IDE ~ the Killer Mozilla Application
Multi-language, Cross-platform Development

04/09/2001
First ActiveTcl distribution now available
Free for download to the community

04/09/2001
Visual Python beta 1.0
First Python IDE for Visual Studio.NET

04/03/2001
Get fired up in San Jose!
Komodo, other hot IDEs, & ASPN at SDWest

04/02/2001
XSLT IDEs ~ first cross-platform GUIs for XML transformations
Visual XSLT & Komodo XSLT betas released

03/27/2001
Open source innovators join ActiveState
ActiveState assembles dream team of tech advisors

03/16/2001
What do Mozilla & Visual Studio have in common?
ActiveState's Komodo & Visual XSLT in Seattle

03/15/2001
Looking for some Tcl?
ActiveState Lecture Series ~ March 21

03/13/2001
Perl & Python at Comdex Canada West
There's a better way to do it

03/06/2001
Recipes wanted for New Python Cookbook
ActiveState & O'Reilly & Assoc. partner on unique open content effort

03/06/2001
Python Software Foundation Launched
New Organization to Promote Open Source Programming Language

03/06/2001
ActivePython 2.0 Easier & Faster
Now with Programmer's Package Manager

03/06/2001
Congratulations to the Active Awards Winners
Perl & Python programmers recognized for excellence

03/05/2001
Perl for .NET proxy now available
ActiveState's PDK 2.1 beta released

03/01/2001
Python Let Loose in LA
ActiveState & the Community at Python Conference

02/26/2001
Tcl finds a home
ActiveState supports open source programming language

02/26/2001
ActiveState continues Brain Gain
Developers & Management Join From Across the Globe

02/20/2001
Vancouver Python & Zope User Group
first meeting - Thursday Feb. 21, 2002

02/19/2001
Perl & Web Services Support with SOAP
PerlEx 2.0 Beta Now Available

02/14/2001
Pathologically Polluting Perl
ActiveState Lecture Series ~ Feb. 21, 2001

02/13/2001
ActivePerl 624 Beta Now Available
Release based on Perl 5.6.1 ~ We'd like your feedback

02/09/2001
ActiveState Active Awards
Vote for your favorite programmer

02/08/2001
Interested in P2P & Web Services?

02/04/2001
C Programmers get exposed
Perl seminar at UBC - Feb. 8

01/25/2001
Perl for Zope Release Now Available

01/21/2001
Komodo/Mozilla storm Manhattan

01/17/2001
Perl 6 ~ What's Happening
ActiveState Lecture Series ~ January 24, 2001

01/16/2001
Python bindings for Mozilla XPCOM technology
irst Release Now Available

01/12/2001
Perl at Microsoft's VSLive! conference
ActiveState demoing at Keynote Address

2000

12/21/2000
Get the Power of Perl in a Familiar GUI Environment
ActiveState's Visual Perl Beta 2 Now Available

12/20/2000
Play with some dragons over the holidays
Get the Komodo Beta, ActiveState's Cross-platform, Multi-language IDE based on Mozilla

12/19/2000
Want convenient access to hundreds of Perl modules for free?
ActivePerl PPM accesses majority of CPAN modules

12/13/2000
Upgraded Perl Filter Engine for Sendmail, PerlMx 1.1, Now Available
Greater Efficiencies and More Sample Filters

12/11/2000
Vancouver Perl Mongers Relaunch on Thursday December 14
Ten Tips & Tricks for Perl

12/08/2000
Gurusamy Sarathy wins best WIP at LISA 2000
What's wrong with dot star?

12/06/2000
Perl now available for Visual Studio.NET
Visual Perl Beta -- First Modern Perl IDE

12/05/2000
XMLFund and ActiveState partner on XML
XSLT to plug into Visual Studio and Komodo

11/30/2000
New version of Komodo - Perl/Python IDE based on Mozilla
Technology Preview Release 3 Now Available

11/29/2000
Fun, fast recipes for Sysadmins in New Orleans
Find out what's hot at ActiveState's LISA 2000 BOFs

11/17/2000
Do you live in Seattle and love Perl?

11/10/2000
ActiveState Lecture Series: Python 2.0
New features to user-friendly programming language

11/03/2000
ActivePerl 5.6 Wins Web Tools Award
WebTechniques Readers' Choice for Programming

11/01/2000
First Perl / Python IDE based on Mozilla Now Available
Komodo Technology Preview Release

10/25/2000
Get Something GUI on Halloween
Komodo, Visual Perl / Visual Python & PDK 2.0 in DC

10/24/2000
ActiveState releases ActivePython 2.0 to the community
Most comprehensive cross-platform distribution available

10/24/2000
Announcing Fully Searchable Mailing Lists Archives
Enjoy the userfriendliness of a Web interface today!

10/23/2000
ActiveState Lecture Series ~ Komodo meets Mozilla
Building applications with the open source browser

10/16/2000
ActiveState Lecture Series
Perl, Python & .NET

Cross language inheritance with your favorite open source programming languages

10/12/2000
Perl Email Management Software for Sendmail
PerlMx the power tool for sysadmins debuts at Linux Showcase

10/11/2000
ActivePerl 5.6 Nominated for Web Tools Award
WebTechniques Editors' Choice for Programming

10/03/2000
Perl, Python, Zope, Mozilla, sendmail & ActiveState at Linux Showcase
PerlMx, Perl/Zope and Komodo will be demoed

09/26/2000
NY VC funds ActiveState
Vancouver & International Angels Invest in Software Development Company

09/26/2000
Rational Software & ActiveState Sign Joint Development and Support Agreement

09/26/2000
Retro building refitted for 21st century
Healthy environment designed to foster tech creativity

09/14/2000
ActiveState releases Perl Dev Kit 2.0 for Perl 5.6
Visual debugging now possible remotely

08/24/2000
State of the Active Summer Newsletter

08/21/2000
ActivePython 1.6 Beta Free for Download
Easy Installation, Cross Platform

08/15/2000
PerlMx at LinuxWorld
Ask the experts your questions

08/04/2000
First Perl and Sendmail mail handler
PerlMx beta available for download.

07/11/2000
ActiveState Supports Microsoft .NET Framework
Perl .NET & Python .NET Cross-Language Interoperability

06/19/2000
ActiveState Building Critical Mass
Brain Gain from Around the World

05/29/2000
ActiveState Partners with Digital Creations
Zope to work with Perl

05/24/2000
ActiveState joins Microsoft's Visual Studio Integration Program
Visual Perl and Visual Python will leverage Visual Studio 7.0

05/24/2000
ActiveState Selects Mozilla Platform for Komodo
Will develop multi-language cross-platform IDE

05/24/2000
Netscape and ActiveState to co-develop JavaScript IDE
Mozilla to support Perl and Python

05/15/2000
ActiveState supports next version of SOAP technology
Developers to leverage this next generation in Web programming in PerlEx 2.0

05/09/2000
Intel Works with ActiveState for IA-64 Ports
Beta Release of Python and Perl for Itanium Processor

05/05/2000
Innovative Open Source Software Design Competition on Track for Success
Software Carpentry Project Announces Finalists

04/10/2000
ActiveState and Sendmail Provide Streamlined Mail Content Processing with Perl
System Administrators can now benefit from shared access to two fundamental Open Source Solutions.

03/25/2000
ActiveState releases ActivePerl 5.6 to the Community
Now available for Linux and Solaris.

02/14/2000
ActivePerl 5.6 Beta Released for Download
Windows, Linux and Solaris versions available

02/14/2000
ActiveState expands Board and completes angel funding round.

01/26/2000
ActiveState adds Python to supported languages and joins the Python Consortium

1999

11/29/1999
ActiveState responds to market demands as Perl usage continues to climb
ActivePerl is now available on CD, along with a host of other great stuff. Find out why we made a CD to help you out.

09/20/1999
Open Source week in Vancouver
Open Source is hot and several of the key people in the Open Source community will be presenting in Vancouver over the coming week.

09/13/1999
Jan Dubois, prominent Perl Developer joins ActiveState
Jan Dubois, a prominent member of the Perl Community and maintainer of Win32::OLE is relocating in December from Germany to Vancouver to join the ActiveState team. Starting from January, Jan will take on the role of Senior Developer.

06/01/1999
ActiveState deepens Open Source Perl relationship with Microsoft
ActiveState Tool Corp and Microsoft Corporation have signed a three-year agreement for a Perl Open Source development and support contract.

03/15/1999
Perl Development Kit Arrives!
Perl Development Kit 1.1 gives Perl Developers the tools they need to produce cutting-edge Perl Applications.

02/04/1999
PerlEx 1.1 Faster than Ever!
PerlEx 1.1 blows away the competition on performance speed, has improved stability and powerful new features.

01/06/1999
PerlDirect Provides Support, Quality-Assurance for Perl
PerlDirect from ActiveState Tool Corp. is the first offering of a complete Perl support program designed for corporate IS/IT managers who would like to expand the use of Perl. Early PerlDirect clients include Credit Suisse First Boston and Wells Fargo.

1998

11/04/1998
Leading Perl Developer Arrives at ActiveState
Gurusamy Sarathy - a five year veteran of Perl and the author of several modules arrived at ActiveState this month. ActiveState has worked closely with Sarathy in the past and his addition increases the depth of Perl expertise in the company.

05/13/1998
ActiveState Accelerates Web Sites with PerlEx
ActiveState Tool Corp. announces the release of PerlEx, a plug-in for NT Web servers that significantly improves the performance of Perl scripts by up to 30 times. PerlEx runs on NT Web servers from O'Reilly & Associates, Microsoft and Netscape and executes existing Perl scripts without modification.

04/08/1998
ActiveState Tool Corp Introduces the First Visual Debugger for Perl on Win32 Systems
ActiveState Perl Debugger brings a full visual debugging environment to Perl for Win32 programmers. GUI-debugger makes Perl for Win32 a more powerful tool for Web programmers and systems administrators.

03/10/1998
Leading Perl and XML Developers Collaborating
Leading Perl and XML (Extensible Markup Language) developers met recently at O'Reilly & Associates to plan a way for Perl, the popular Web programming language, and XML, the hottest Web mark-up technology, to work together.

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