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 Language Expertise
The ActiveState team has core depth expertise in Perl, Python and Tcl and strong knowledge of Ruby, PHP and JavaScript through our related work. Our expertise extends from core language development to tools for ensuring successful development and deployment. This includes expertise in a variety of operating systems, frameworks, databases and other libraries and middleware that are necessary for successful application development.
Our Operating System Expertise
Wide systems knowledge is also part of the value we provide to customers to meet the demands of a cross-platform environment. We build, support and maintain ActivePerl, ActivePython, and ActiveTcl across a wide variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, to Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. ActiveState has also been key in porting languages to new systems, including 64-bit Windows, the Itanium architecture, Windows CE and other proprietary embedded systems.
ActiveState builds, manages, and tests on a regular basis:
- Perl: 4 current releases, over 10,000 packages
- Python: 3 current releases, over 7,000 packages
- Tcl: 3 current releases, over 700 packages
- For 6 operating systems with 16 Architectures
Download our Technical Expertise Datasheet here.
Our Commitment to Open Source
We are firmly rooted and committed to the open source dynamic language communities as supporters and contributors. As seen in Ohloh rankings, our developers and strategic advisers consistently rank in the top 1-2% of all open source coders.
Our technical leaders are leading contributors to the core Perl, Python, and Tcl language distributions, and with this deep expertise, they provide technical support and best practices advice to our enterprise customers.
We continue to provide our Community Edition language distributions free to the community. Komodo Edit, built on the Mozilla framework, was open sourced in 2008. As one of the first ISVs to build tools on top of the Mozilla framework, we built and contributed back pyxpcom, the Python binding to the Mozilla XPCOM framework.
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
ActiveState customers include thousands of developers at leading companies including CA, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Lockheed Martin, GE Aviation, and more. Read case studies and testimonials from ActiveState customers.
Investors
ActiveState is owned by its employees and Pender Financial Group, a private merchant bank focused on technology in British Columbia.