VANCOUVER, British Columbia – January 23, 2006 – CMP Media's Software Development has selected ActiveState Komodo as a Best Development Environment finalist in this year's Software Development Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards. 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.

For the past 15 years, the Jolt Awards have been presented annually to showcase products that have "jolted" the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient.

Says Software Development Technical Editor Rosalyn Lum of the finalists, "These products represent a cross section of the most ground-breaking tools for every phase of the software development lifecycle–a testament that the spirit of innovation is alive and well in the software development sector."

Award winners will be announced March 15, 2006 in Santa Clara, California and in the June 2006 issue of Software Development.

Pricing & Availability

Free trials of Komodo 3.5 for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows are available online. Licenses are $295 for Komodo Professional, and $29.95 for Komodo Personal. Upgrade pricing from prior releases is $99.95 and $19.95, respectively. 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.