VANCOUVER, British Columbia – April 5, 2006 – Today, Ziff Davis Media's eWeek magazine selected ActiveState Komodo as a finalist in the 6th Annual eWeek Excellence Awards, Application Development Category. Komodo is the professional IDE for dynamic languages, offering advanced support for Komodo offers advanced support for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows.

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. A panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners—senior enterprise IT professionals who act as reader representatives—evaluate all entries.

"A high level of innovation-both from start-ups and industry stalwarts was what impressed us most about this year's field of entries," said Eric Lundquist, eWEEK Editorial Director. "It's clear from the hundreds of entries evaluated by the Excellence Awards judges that vendors are responding quickly and effectively to the increasingly complex-and constantly changing demands put on enterprise IT managers."

Winners will be announced in May and honored at a special ceremony on May 23 in Boston, Mass.

Pricing & Availability

Komodo Professional Edition licenses are $295, and Komodo Personal Edition licenses are $29.95. Upgrade pricing from prior releases is $99.95 and $19.95, respectively. Free evaluations of Komodo 3.5 for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows are available online. Komodo is offered at zero cost for classrooms and teachers through the ActiveState Education License Program. Komodo 3.5 is shipping now on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.