an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . august 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message 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 www.activestate.com activestate 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 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 . 1 as of 2006 it ran on windows mac os x linux solaris aix and hp ux platforms . 2 activepython for windows includes the pywin32 extensions for programming with the win32 api . 3 it also includes the integrated development environment idle although this requires manual setup . 4 in october 2006 activestate then a subsidiary of sophos was named one of canada s top 100 employers as published in maclean s magazine one of only a handful of software developers to receive this honour . 5 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 . 6 in december 2012 activestate announced the oem integration of stackato with hp cloud services specifically the hp cloud application platform as a service . 7 hp describes the product as an application platform for development deployment and management of cloud applications using any language on any stack . 8 9 in july 2015 it was announced that hp was acquiring stackato from activestate . 10 activestate is owned by its employees and pender financial group an investment company focused on technology and healthcare sectors in british columbia 11 after briefly being a member of the sophos group . references edit 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 . reasons for selection 2007 canada s top 100 employers . 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 . cohen reuven . hp unveils cloud application platform powered by activestate . forbes . hp buys activestate s paas stackato . informationweek . activestate corporate information the dynamic language experts external links edit activestate company site activestate code site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title activestate & oldid 719770890 categories software companies of canadahidden categories articles with a promotional tone from august 2012all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 11 may 2016 at 17 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view