ActivePerl Business Edition

Building a business-critical application with Perl, Python or Tcl?

If you're using dynamic languages to power your business, you need ActiveState Business Edition, the newest commercial-grade language distribution for open source compliance, commercial support, and cross-platform access.

ActiveState Business Edition is a new, affordable solution developed specifically for small and mid-sized development teams. It integrates low-cost commercial support with access to builds and repositories for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, AIX, Solaris and HP-UX plus to older versions across all platforms.

It is ideal for finance, aerospace & defense, and government organizations that have small deployments of Perl, Python, or Tcl in internal business-critical applications.

Enlist commercial support for Perl, Python and Tcl at a price you can afford:

• Comply with requirements to have supported open source products
• Keep your development issues private
• Count on dynamic languages expertise at your fingertips at a minimal cost
• Free up precious development time to focus on your core competencies
• Ensure maximum uptime for your business-critical applications

For building business-critical applications, rely on exclusive access to builds and repositories not available in Community Edition, including:

Exclusive access to AIX, Solaris, HP-UX platform builds and repositories in addition to Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

• Regardless of the environment you depend on, you receive exclusive access to quality assured builds and repositories for AIX, Solaris and HP-UX in addition to Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

Access to older versions across all platforms.

• Get convenient, worry free access to older versions of the dynamic language so you can work with the version you need and have the convenience to upgrade when the time is right.
• Benefit from the ability to test your products against any release version.

Fast and easy management of Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX modules.

• Along with exclusive access to AIX, Solaris and HP-UX modules, you receive access to the package manager for Perl, Python and Tcl (PPM, PyPM and Teapot respectively)^.
• Package managers simplify the job of finding and installing pre-built language modules or extensions, saving you time and effort.

^Package Managers for Perl, Python and Tcl available with the respective language distribution. Business Edition pricing based on language and number of servers.