ActiveState sold to Canadian VC firm

Christopher Nelson

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Feb 7, 2006, 7:23:42 AM2/7/06

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Slashdot
(http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/07/012228&from=rss)
points to an article on eweek
(http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1920555,00.asp):

"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."

Helmut Giese

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Feb 7, 2006, 6:36:58 AM2/7/06

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On 7 Feb 2006 04:23:42 -0800, "Christopher Nelson"
<cne...@nycap.rr.com> wrote:

Also the latest Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL posting contains a link to a
statement of ActiveState's CEO.

Googie

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Feb 7, 2006, 7:46:44 AM2/7/06

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Christopher Nelson wrote:
> "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."
>

I'm not sure - does it change anything in practice for end-users?

--
Pozdrawiam! (Greetings!)
Googie

Robert Hicks

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Feb 7, 2006, 8:12:50 AM2/7/06

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Not from what I read and it may even mean a tighter focus on the
community.

Robert

Donal K. Fellows

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Feb 7, 2006, 8:18:02 AM2/7/06

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Googie wrote:
> I'm not sure - does it change anything in practice for end-users?

As far as I can tell, only for the better (though it looked pretty good
anyway before, so how/where it could improve is unclear to me.)

Donal.

Jeff Hobbs

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Feb 7, 2006, 11:20:05 AM2/7/06

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We always have a few tricks up our sleeves. ;)

In short, this will have no negative effect for our communities.

--
Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy
http://www.ActiveState.com/, a division of Sophos

Cameron Laird

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Feb 7, 2006, 1:08:04 PM2/7/06

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In article <43e88617...@News.Individual.DE>,
Helmut Giese <hgi...@ratiosoft.com> wrote:
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>Also the latest Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL posting contains a link to a
>statement of ActiveState's CEO.

Thank you, Helmut, for the advertisement of "Tcl-URL!"'s role as
an effective place to spot items early. As it happens, the note
in question was written by David Ascher, Chief Technologist for
AS. I believe David "managed" AS. The plan, as I understand it,
is for him to remain as CTO and VP of AS, while Bart Copeland
joins AS as CEO.

Helmut Giese

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Feb 7, 2006, 5:31:16 PM2/7/06

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On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:08:04 GMT, cla...@lairds.us (Cameron Laird)
wrote:

Hi Cameron,
thanks for the clarification. I'm not too familiar with the commercial
abreviations, so I easily ess up CEO and CTO and what not.
Best regards
Helmut Giese

Donal K. Fellows

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Feb 8, 2006, 4:23:41 AM2/8/06

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Helmut Giese wrote:
> thanks for the clarification. I'm not too familiar with the commercial
> abreviations, so I easily ess up CEO and CTO and what not.

We need a CAO (Chief Abbreviation/Acronym Officer) to help sort this
out. ;-)

Donal.

Helmut Giese

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Feb 8, 2006, 6:15:07 AM2/8/06

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Donal for CAO !!!
Donal for CAO !!!
Donal for CAO !!!

Donald Arseneau

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Feb 8, 2006, 11:43:09 AM2/8/06

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hgi...@ratiosoft.com (Helmut Giese) writes:

Good idea, considering his name is already abbreviated.

--
Donald Arseneau as...@triumf.ca

Bruce Hartweg

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Feb 8, 2006, 12:00:47 PM2/8/06

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i think you meant:
DKF for CAO!!
;)

Bruce

Helmut Giese

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Feb 8, 2006, 1:06:21 PM2/8/06

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Hey Bruce,
you're prety good. Ever considered working on TIP 131?