ActiveState’s World-Renowned Open Source Language Distributions are Free to the Developer Community
WWDC 2005, SAN FRANCISCO, CA – June 7, 2005 – ActiveState, a leading provider of developer tools and services for dynamic languages, today announced the release of ActiveState’s ActivePerl, ActivePython & ActiveTcl open source language distributions for Mac OS X version 10.4 “Tiger”. ActiveState’s language distributions are world-renowned as the most complete, best maintained, and easiest to use cross-platform language solutions in the market. The three new distributions for Tiger offer the same innovative features, quality assurances and seamless integration that have made ActiveState the industry-standard and number one resource for open source language distributions. Since their launch eight years ago, millions of developers have relied upon ActiveState’s quality assured open source language distributions worldwide.
“The demand for ActiveState’s languages and developer tools for Tiger is intense,” says David Ascher, ActiveState’s Chief Technologist. “Our initiative starts with the launch of ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl
to meet the developer need for up-to-date and maintained distributions on the Mac OS X platform. Our commitment continues with a beta release this summer of our Komodo IDE ported to Tiger.”
“Hundreds of breakthrough features make Tiger the most advanced OS in the world,” said Ron Okamoto, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “We are thrilled to see ActiveState providing ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl to create a best-of-breed open source productivity environment for script developers on Mac OS X.”
ActiveState’s language distributions enable Mac programmers to keep their Perl, Python & Tcl packages seamlessly up-to-date. ActivePerl contains core Perl, the Perl Package Manager (PPM) for installing CPAN packages, popular modules, and complete online help. ActivePython ships with a wealth of documentation for both new and experienced Python programmers. ActiveTcl delivers Tcl, Tk and the essential modules for Tcl programming. ActiveState’s language distributions allow programmers to develop across platforms with quality assured standards on Mac OS X (10.3 and 10.4), Linux, Solaris and Windows. ActivePerl, ActivePython & ActiveTcl are provided free to the community as part of ActiveState’s support for dynamic languages.
Pricing & Availability
ActivePerl, ActivePython & ActiveTcl are immediately available as free downloads from www.ActiveState.com/Languages. ActiveState offers OEM licensing for including ActivePerl, ActivePython or ActiveTcl with your products, services and publications. Contact Sales@ActiveState.com for OEM license inquires.
About ActiveState
ActiveState is the leading provider of tools for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and XSLT. Millions of developers rely on ActiveState’s professional development tools, high-quality language distributions and enterprise services. www.ActiveState.com”
