VANCOUVER, British Columbia – August 12, 2009 – ActiveState announced today, at the Open Source World conference in San Francisco, that they will now be offering business training for the scripting languages Perl, Python and Tcl. Whether your company is new to open source or just looking to refine existing programming skills, the ActiveState Training Program will provide exactly the level and depth required for engineers to take their skills, and your company, to the next level.

Bart Copeland, ActiveState’s CEO and President commented, “The ActiveState Training Program for Perl, Python and Tcl is instrumental to the completion of our end-to-end software, maintenance, support, services and training solution for businesses and Fortune 2000 enterprises. Our most successful customers are those that continuously invest in ongoing training for their developers. These organizations understand that the difference between your product launched on-time and a delayed development schedule, often lies in up-to-date, reliable programming skills.”

Benefits of the ActiveState Training Program:

Improve developers’ productivity: Get the most out of your team, leverage your existing code base, and cultivate your core technical competencies.

Deliver robust and reliable systems: Your highly-functioning systems and applications translate into happier customers and staff.

Benefit from your team’s dynamic languages expertise: Your team will be more efficient by fully harnessing the power of dynamic languages like Perl, Python and Tcl.

ActiveState, established in 1997, creates and provides professional business solutions and industry-recognized tools for corporations and developers who use dynamic languages. We focus on Perl, Python, Tcl, and web development technologies (like PHP, Ruby, and JavaScript, plus CSS, HTML and XML). Our open source language distributions – ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl – are renowned for their quality and relied upon by companies and developers worldwide.

ActiveState is owned by its employees and Pender Financial Group, a private merchant bank focused on technology in British Columbia.

For more information, visit ActiveState.

Contact Information
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Liliya Apostolova
ActiveState
778 786 1137
liliyaa@ActiveState.com