ActiveState
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ActiveState is a Canadian software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia that 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. Popular products from ActiveState include ActiveState Komodo, an integrated development environment (IDE) for dynamic languages; the Perl Dev Kit (PDK), productivity and deployment tools for Perl programmers; and the Tcl Dev Kit (PDK), productivity and deployment tools for Tcl programmers. Language distributions include Perl (ActivePerl), Python (ActivePython), and Tcl (ActiveTcl) for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows.
ActiveState is owned by its employees and Pender Financial Group, a publicly traded investment company focused on technology and healthcare sectors in British Columbia[1] after briefly being a member of the Sophos group.
