ActiveState Business Edition Launched

Vancouver, Canada based ActiveState has reportedly unveiled ActiveState Business Edition, commercial-grade language distributions for Perl, Python and Tcl. ActiveState Business Edition offers organizations open source compliance, commercial support and cross-platform access. 

According to Bart Copeland, president and CEO of ActiveState, the company has been a leading contributor in the open source community for years.

“With the launch of Business Edition, we can help companies deploying Perl, Python and Tcl in their business-critical applications, ensure open source policy compliance, minimize downtime and accelerate productivity cost-effectively,” Copeland said. “ActiveState’s deep technical expertise is focused on keeping client systems, powered by dynamic languages, running smoothly and making sure clients are in compliance with their open source policies.” 

ActiveState Business Edition integrates commercial Perl, Python and Tcl support with access to platform builds and repositories for AIX, Solaris and HP-UX as well as to older versions across all platforms. ActiveState Business Edition will be particularly useful for finance, aerospace & defense, and government organizations that have deployments of Perl, Python or Tcl in business-critical applications. 

“As mainstream use of the open source dynamic languages continues to grow in social media applications, business-critical applications and cloud computing, the availability of SLA support and clean commercial licensing becomes more and more important,” said Greg Olson, senior partner at Olliance Group. “ActiveState’s new Business Edition now delivers their proven commercial-grade solutions for enterprises in a package that meets the needs of small to medium businesses as well.” 

ActiveState specializes in end-to-end management and distribution solutions for Perl, Python and Tcl. Companies like Cisco Systems (News - Alert), Hewlett Packard, Credit Suisse, First Boston and Siemens, along with over 97 percent of Fortune 1000 corporations, leverage ActiveState's technology for their critical systems, benefitting from reduced downtime, complexity and legal risk and better compliance.