ActiveState
Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia Canada |
Key people | Bart Copeland (CEO) |
| Products | ActivePerl, ActivePython, ActiveTcl, Komodo IDE |
Number of employees | >30 |
| Website | activestate.com |
ActiveState Software Inc. is a Canadian software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. It 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.
ActiveState is owned by its employees and Pender Financial Group, an investment company focused on technology and healthcare sectors in British Columbia[1] after briefly being a member of the Sophos group.
Contents
1 History
1.1 Sophos ownership era
1.2 Pender Financial Group ownership era
2 Subsidiaries
3 Products
3.1 Stackato
4 References
5 External links
History
On 2003-09-24, Sophos Plc annouced the acquisition of ActiveState Corp. As part of the acquisition, ActiveState's president Steve Munford would become a member of Sophos's executive management team as Global VP Messaging.[2][3]
Sophos ownership era
On 2006-01-29, Pender Financial Group announced on that it has entered into an agreement with Sophos, Inc. to acquire ActiveState Software Inc.[4]
On 2006-02-21, ActiveState Software Inc. announced its acquisition by Pender Financial Group Corporation from Sophos, Inc., a subsidiary of Sophos Plc., for the purchase price of US$2,250,000. Following the acquisition, Bart Copeland would become ActiveState Software Inc.'s President and CEO, and Dr. David Ascher would become ActiveState Software Inc.'s CTO and VP of Engineering.[5] Following the sales of ActiveState to PFG, David Ascher of ActiveState revealed that Sophos agreed to sell ActiveState because developing programming tools did not fit Sophos's business model.[6]
Pender Financial Group ownership era
In October 2006, ActiveState was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, as published in Maclean's magazine, along with several other software companies.[7]
Subsidiaries
- Phenona: On 2011-06-14, ActiveState Software Inc. announced the acquisition of Phenona.[8][9]
- Appsecute Limited: On 2013-06-04, ActiveState Software Inc. announced the acquisition of Appsecute.[10] The acquisition would become ActiveState's strategy to pair Appsecute with Stackato.[11]
Products
ActiveState products include: ActiveState Komodo, an integrated development environment (IDE) for dynamic languages; Perl Dev Kit (PDK) and Tcl Dev Kit (TDK), productivity and deployment tools for Perl and Tcl programmers; and free and commercial language distributions, ActivePerl, ActivePython, and ActiveTcl for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, OS X, Solaris, and Windows.
ActivePython is a software package consisting of the Python (programming language) implementation CPython and a set of extensions, packaged to facilitate installation.[12] As of 2006, it ran on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX platforms.[13] ActivePython for Windows includes the PyWin32 extensions for programming with the Win32 API.[14]
It also includes the integrated development environment IDLE, although this requires manual setup.[15]
Stackato
In February 2012, ActiveState announced general availability of Stackato. According to the announcement, Stackato "makes it easy to develop, deploy, migrate, scale, manage, and monitor applications on any cloud", and is available in Enterprise, Micro Cloud, and Sandbox editions.[16]
In December 2012, ActiveState announced the OEM integration of Stackato with HP Cloud Services, specifically the HP Cloud Application Platform as a Service.[17] HP describes the product as "an application platform for development, deployment, and management of cloud applications using any language on any stack".[18][19]
In July 28, 2015, Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. announced the acquisition of Stackato's business from ActiveState Software Inc.[20][21][22]
References
^ ActiveState - Corporate Information - The Dynamic Language Experts
^ Sophos acquires anti-spam specialist ActiveState
^ Sophos acquires anti-spam specialist ActiveState
^ ActiveState To Spin Out
^ ActiveState Acquired by Employees and Pender Financial Group; Company Renews Focus on Tools and Solutions for Dynamic Languages
^ ActiveState reactivates
^ "Reasons for Selection, 2007 Canada's Top 100 Employers". Archived from the original on August 2, 2012. Retrieved June 26, 2007..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ ActiveState Acquires Perl Cloud Company, Phenona, to Accelerate Cloud Strategy
^ Teen sells Perl cloud startup to ActiveState
^ ActiveState Acquires Appsecute: Private-PaaS Leader Purchases Social DevOps Solutions Provider
^ Going Social: Why ActiveState Acquired Appsecute
^ Boswell, William (2003). Inside Windows Server 2003. Addison-Wesley Professional. p. 717.
^ Martelli, Alex (2006). Python in a Nutshell. O'Reilly. p. 19.
^ Martelli, Alex; Ravenscroft, Anna; Ascher, David (2005). Python Cookbook. O'Reilly. p. 326.
^ Langtangen, Hans Petter (2013). Python Scripting for Computational Science. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 660.
^ "ActiveState Unveils Stackato 1.0, the Application Platform for Creating a Private PaaS".
^ "ActiveState Announces HP OEM Licensing Agreement for Platform as a Service with Stackato".
^ "HP Cloud Application Platform as a Service product page". Archived from the original on January 29, 2013.
^ Cohen, Reuven. "HP Unveils Cloud Application Platform Powered by ActiveState". Forbes.
^ "HP Buys ActiveState's PaaS, Stackato". InformationWeek.
^ "HP to Acquire ActiveState's Stackato Business to Help Customers Transition to Hybrid Cloud". Archived from the original on 2016-05-06.
^ "ActiveState's Stackato (Cloud Foundry & Docker Based PaaS) Acquired by HP".
External links
- ActiveState Company site
- ActiveState Code site
