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ActiveState is a Canadian proprietary software
Proprietary software

Proprietary software is a term coined by advocates of the free software movement to describe computer software which is the legal property of one party....
 company headquartered in Vancouver
Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal city and major seaport located in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest city in British Columbia and the second largest metropolitan area in the Pacific Northwest region....
, British Columbia
British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
 that develops, sells, and supports cross-platform
Cross-platform

In computing, cross-platform is a term used to refer to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms....
 development tools for dynamic languages
Dynamic programming language

Dynamic programming language is a term used broadly in computer science to describe a class of high-level programming languages that execute at runtime many common behaviors that other languages might perform during compiler, if at all....
 such as Perl
Perl

In computer programming, Perl is a high-level programming language, List of programming languages by category, Interpreter , dynamic programming language....
, PHP
PHP

PHP is a scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. It has evolved to include a command line interface capability and can be used in Standalone software Graphical user interface....
, Python
Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python's core syntax and semantics are Minimalism , while the standard library is large and comprehensive....
, Ruby
Ruby (programming language)

Ruby is a dynamic programming language, reflection , general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features....
, and Tcl
Tcl

Tcl is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout. Originally "born out of frustration"?according to the author?with programmers devising their own languages intended to be embedded into applications, Tcl quickly gained wide acceptance on its own and is generally thought to be easy to learn, but powerful in competent hands....
, as well as language distributions
Software distribution

A software distribution, also referred to as a software distro, is a bundle of a specific software , already compiled and configured. It is generally the closest thing to a turnkey form of a usually GNU General Public License, free software source code for a software....
 and enterprise services. Popular products from ActiveState include ActiveState Komodo
ActiveState Komodo

ActiveState Komodo is the name given to a family of integrated development environment applications produced by software firm ActiveState....
, an integrated development environment
Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment also known as integrated design environment or integrated debugging environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development....
 (IDE) for dynamic languages
Dynamic programming language

Dynamic programming language is a term used broadly in computer science to describe a class of high-level programming languages that execute at runtime many common behaviors that other languages might perform during compiler, if at all....
; the Perl Dev Kit (PDK), productivity and deployment tools for Perl programmers; and the Tcl Dev Kit (TDK), productivity and deployment tools for Tcl programmers.






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ActiveState is a Canadian proprietary software
Proprietary software

Proprietary software is a term coined by advocates of the free software movement to describe computer software which is the legal property of one party....
 company headquartered in Vancouver
Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal city and major seaport located in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest city in British Columbia and the second largest metropolitan area in the Pacific Northwest region....
, British Columbia
British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
 that develops, sells, and supports cross-platform
Cross-platform

In computing, cross-platform is a term used to refer to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms....
 development tools for dynamic languages
Dynamic programming language

Dynamic programming language is a term used broadly in computer science to describe a class of high-level programming languages that execute at runtime many common behaviors that other languages might perform during compiler, if at all....
 such as Perl
Perl

In computer programming, Perl is a high-level programming language, List of programming languages by category, Interpreter , dynamic programming language....
, PHP
PHP

PHP is a scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. It has evolved to include a command line interface capability and can be used in Standalone software Graphical user interface....
, Python
Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python's core syntax and semantics are Minimalism , while the standard library is large and comprehensive....
, Ruby
Ruby (programming language)

Ruby is a dynamic programming language, reflection , general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features....
, and Tcl
Tcl

Tcl is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout. Originally "born out of frustration"?according to the author?with programmers devising their own languages intended to be embedded into applications, Tcl quickly gained wide acceptance on its own and is generally thought to be easy to learn, but powerful in competent hands....
, as well as language distributions
Software distribution

A software distribution, also referred to as a software distro, is a bundle of a specific software , already compiled and configured. It is generally the closest thing to a turnkey form of a usually GNU General Public License, free software source code for a software....
 and enterprise services. Popular products from ActiveState include ActiveState Komodo
ActiveState Komodo

ActiveState Komodo is the name given to a family of integrated development environment applications produced by software firm ActiveState....
, an integrated development environment
Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment also known as integrated design environment or integrated debugging environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development....
 (IDE) for dynamic languages
Dynamic programming language

Dynamic programming language is a term used broadly in computer science to describe a class of high-level programming languages that execute at runtime many common behaviors that other languages might perform during compiler, if at all....
; the Perl Dev Kit (PDK), productivity and deployment tools for Perl programmers; and the Tcl Dev Kit (TDK), productivity and deployment tools for Tcl programmers. Language distributions
Software distribution

A software distribution, also referred to as a software distro, is a bundle of a specific software , already compiled and configured. It is generally the closest thing to a turnkey form of a usually GNU General Public License, free software source code for a software....
 include Perl
Perl

In computer programming, Perl is a high-level programming language, List of programming languages by category, Interpreter , dynamic programming language....
 (ActivePerl/PerlScript
PerlScript

PerlScript was initially solely an ActiveX Scripting Engine produced by the company ActiveState for use with Microsoft Internet Information Services that allows for programmers to use Perl-based code in addition to, or in place of, VBScript or JScript in the context of web servers running the Active Server Pages protocol....
), Python (ActivePython
ActivePython

ActiveState ActivePython is a Python distribution for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris , IBM AIX and HP-UX....
/PythonScript), and Tcl (ActiveTcl/TclScript) for AIX, HP-UX
HP-UX

HP-UX 11i is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary software implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V . It runs on the HP 9000 PA-RISC-based range of central processing unit and HP Integrity Intel's Itanium-based systems, and was also available for later Apollo/Domain systems....
, Linux
Linux

Linux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL license...
, Mac OS X
Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a line of computer operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc., and since 2002 has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems....
, Solaris
Solaris Operating System

Solaris is a Unix-based operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS.Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace and ZFS....
, and Windows
Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces ....
.

In October 2006, ActiveState (then Sophos) was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers
Canada's Top 100 Employers

Canada's Top 100 Employers is an annual competition that recognizes the best places in Canada to work. First held in 1999, the project aims to single out the employers that lead their industries in offering exceptional working conditions and progressive human resources policies....
, as published in Maclean's
Maclean's

Maclean's is a Canada weekly news magazine, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events....
 magazine, one of only a handful of software developers to receive this honour.

ActiveState is owned by its employees and , a publicly traded investment company focused on technology and healthcare sectors in British Columbia
British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
 after briefly being a member of the Sophos
Sophos

Sophos is a developer and vendor of security software and hardware, including antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and Network Access Control for desktops, servers, email systems and other network gateways....
 group.

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