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ActiveState Returns to Open Source Roots

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the if-you-get-lost-return-to-the-beginning dept.

constab writes "ActiveState, the Sophos-owned company that makes free distributions and commercial programming tools for programming languages like Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl and Ruby, has been sold to a Canadian VC firm. According to the article, ActiveState will go back to its open-source roots and continue development of ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl. A full set of Mac OS X on Intel downloads is also in the works."

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  1. Pender Financial Group Description by Real+World+Stuff · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pender Financial Group (formerly Devon Ventures Corporation) is a merchant bank that invests in emerging growth companies, specifically those in the technology and health care fields. Subsidiary PenderFund Capital Management Ltd. manages the Pender Growth Fund, a venture capital fund that invests in tech companies located in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Pender Financial owns about $30 million in assets under management. Invested companies include high technology light manufacturer Carmanah, aerial mapping and surveying provider Intermap Technologies Corporation, web hoster Radiant Communications, and messaging software designer Voice Mobility.

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  2. Q&A from ActiveState by MarkChovain · · Score: 5, Informative

    ActiveState have put a Q&A on their website. It has lots of pretty good info, with a little bit of PR thrown in for good measure.

  3. perl/php/python/tcl/ruby on intel OS X by egarland · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are talking about ports of ActiveState's perl/php/python/tcl/ruby on intel OS X.

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    1. Re:perl/php/python/tcl/ruby on intel OS X by Phroggy · · Score: 3, Informative

      Note that Mac OS X already includes all of these languages (as well as C, C++, Objective C, Java, and probably a couple others) - just not ActiveState's versions.

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  4. Re:What about Komodo? by davidascher · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sorry, no current plans to open source Komodo at this time.

    David Ascher, ActiveState

  5. Re:i luv these guys, but they are doomed by LLuthor · · Score: 3, Informative

    I used to use cygwin heavily (not just for perl), but with recent versions, it has gotten very very slow. For many of my scripts, ActivePerl is more than 100% faster than cygwin.

    Another thing is that cygwin has a number of bugs when working with sockets (e.g. select() uses 100% CPU).

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  6. Re:i luv these guys, but they are doomed by RazzleDazzle · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apparently that is not going to happen, according to an ActiveState employee post on Slashdot.

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