ActiveState

ActiveState is a Canadian proprietary software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia that 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. Popular products from ActiveState include ActiveState Komodo, an integrated development environment (IDE) for dynamic languages; the Perl Dev Kit (PDK), productivity and deployment tools for Perl programmers; and the Tcl Dev Kit (PDK), productivity and deployment tools for Tcl programmers. Language distributions include Perl (ActivePerl), Python (ActivePython), and Tcl (ActiveTcl) for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows.

In October 2006, ActiveState (then Sophos) was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, as published in Maclean's magazine, one of only a handful of software developers to receive this honour. [cite web|url=http://www.eluta.ca/einfo?en=Sophos+Inc.&ri=ad67c6c40d9940aa49e46774f2ed400a&rk=bd905b672f32f4798171a4beadecb120|title=Reasons for Selection, 2007 Canada's Top 100 Employers]

ActiveState is owned by its employees and [http://www.penderfinancial.com Pender Financial Group] , a publicly traded investment company focused on technology and healthcare sectors in British Columbia [ [http://www.activestate.com/Company/about.plex ActiveState - Corporate Information - Dynamic Tools for Dynamic Languages ] ] after briefly being a member of the Sophos group.

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External links

* [http://www.activestate.com Company site]
* [http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl/index.mhtml Company site: ActivePerl product page]