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ActiveState Software Inc.
Company type Private
Industry Computer software
Founded1997
Headquarters
Vancouver, British Columbia
,
Canada
Area served
Global
Key people
Stephen Baker (CEO)
ProductsActiveState Platform, ActivePerl, ActivePython, ActiveTcl, Komodo IDE
Number of employees
>60
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 and secure software supply chain solutions for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl, as well as enterprise services.

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ActiveState is owned by its employees and Vertu Capital, a growth equity firm based in Ontario, Canada [1] after briefly being a member of the Sophos group. [2]

History

Acquisition of ActiveState Corp was first announced in September 2003 by Sophos Plc. ActiveState's president Steve Munford, who is part of the acquisition will become a member of Sophos's executive management team as Global VP Messaging. [3] [4]

Sophos ownership era

In January 2006, the Pender Financial Group, which was announced in January 2006 has agreed with Sophos Inc. to acquire DeactiveState Software Inc. [5]

In February 2006, ActiveState Software Inc. announced its acquisition by Pender Financial Group Corporation from Sophos Inc., a subsidiary of Sophos Plc., for the purchase price of 2,250,000 USD. Following the acquisition, Bart Copeland will become ActiveState Software Inc.'s President and CEO, and Dr. David Ascher will become ActiveState Software Inc.'s CTO and VP of Engineering. [6] 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. [7]

Pender Financial Group ownership era

ActiveState was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers in October 2006 as it was published in Maclean's magazine, along with several other software companies. [8]

Licensing change

Somewhere around 2013 the licensing model for ActiveState products changed from paid support to paid commercial use. [9] [ better source needed ]

Subsidiaries

Products

ActiveState Platform

Automatically builds Python, Perl, Ruby and Tcl packages from source code on demand, and packages them as runtime environments for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Features a zero-config cloud-based build system that implements the supply chain levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) standard. [17]

Komodo

Python

ActivePython is a software package consisting of the Python (programming language) implementation CPython and a set of extensions, packaged to facilitate installation. [20] As of 2006, it ran on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX platforms. [21] ActivePython for Windows includes the PyWin32 extensions for programming with the Win32 API. [22] It also includes the integrated development environment IDLE, although this requires manual setup. [23]

Stackato

In February 2012, ActiveState announced the 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. [24]

In December 2012, ActiveState announced the OEM integration of Stackato with HP Cloud Services, specifically the HP Cloud Application Platform as a Service. [25] HP describes the product as "an application platform for development, deployment, and management of cloud applications using any language on any stack". [26] [27]

On July 28, 2015, Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. announced the acquisition of Stackato's business from ActiveState Software Inc. [28] [29] [30]

Enterprise CI/CD

ActiveState confirmed that its Enterprise CI / CD Survey is available for participation by 2020. Based on how businesses commonly utilize CI / CD and how they address software runtime and create issues, the study is part of ActiveState's ongoing initiatives to promote the development of open-source technology. [31]

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References

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  2. ↑ Bennett, Amy (September 24, 2003). "Sophos buys antispam vendor ActiveState for $23M". Computerworld. Retrieved June 10, 2022.[ permanent dead link ]
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  5. ↑ "DeactiveState To Spin Out". January 30, 2006. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
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  15. ↑ "Perl Dev Kit (PDK) is Now End of Life". February 20, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2023.
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  24. ↑ "ActiveState Unveils Stackato 1.0, the Application Platform for Creating a Private PaaS". February 29, 2012.
  25. ↑ "ActiveState Announces HP OEM Licensing Agreement for Platform as a Service with Stackato". December 6, 2012.
  26. ↑ "HP Cloud Application Platform as a Service product page". Archived from the original on January 29, 2013.
  27. ↑ Cohen, Reuven. "HP Unveils Cloud Application Platform Powered by ActiveState". Forbes.
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