VANCOUVER, BC, FEBRUARY 5, 2002 - ActiveState, the leader in open source
programming languages, today announced the release of the Perl Dev Kit
(PDK) 4.0, which adds support for the Microsoft .NET Framework, Win 9x
and HP-UX.  Existing Perl scripts can now be turned into .NET components
and used seamlessly in .NET Framework applications.  Current users will
find that PDK 4.0 creates Perl components on Windows that are 30% to 50%
smaller.

"PDK 4.0's integration with Visual Perl 1.2 allows developers to build
.NET components in Perl and then use them within VB .NET or C# and do
true multilanguage development and debugging," said Dick Hardt, Founder
& CEO, ActiveState.

"We're adopting Perl as our scripting language of choice because of its
crossplatform portability and PDK's functionality is a god-send," said
Matt Wagenknecht, Internet Security Engineer, Quantum Corp.  "I perform
attack and penetration tests on our servers and the smaller footprint of
the new PerlApp executables in PDK 4.0 is very important."

Perl Dev Kit's key new features include:

• PerlApp - Turns your Perl programs into ready-to-run
executables, which can now be built on Win 9x and HP-UX in addition to
Linux and Solaris
• PerlCtrl - Create ActiveX controls written in Perl, which can
now be built on Win 9x
• PerlNET - use existing .NET objects from Perl, create new .NET
components in Perl, and inherit from and extend components written in
other languages with Perl code

"Based on customer demand we added support for more platforms such as
Win 9x and HP-UX," said Jan Dubois, PDK Tech Lead, ActiveState.  "We're
also very excited about supporting the .NET Framework with its easy
interoperability between languages and cross language inheritance.  Perl
programmers will no longer need to write all that 'plumbing' code that
was necessary in the past."

"I've used PDK since the 1.0 release and love the ability to create
standalone ActiveX controls," said Dave Warner, Sr. Applications
Developer, Northrop Grumann IT Computing Systems.  "We run most of our
automated functions using Perl and now with PDK 4.0, I can better manage
the distribution of standalone executables on our critical HP-UX
servers, while maintaining the core distribution on just one server."

The Perl Dev Kit is $195.  Existing customers can upgrade for $79.95.
Educational, volume and enterprise licenses are also available.
Additional details, free trial licenses, and downloads are at
www.ActiveState.com/PDK and www.ActiveState.com/VisualPerl.

About ActiveState:
ActiveState is the leading provider of open source based programming
products and services for cross-platform development.  ActiveState's key
technologies are Perl, the Internet's most popular programming language;
Python and Tcl, user-friendly scripting languages; PHP, the dynamic Web
programming language; and XSLT, the XML transformation language.

Media & Analyst Contact:
Lori Pike, ActiveState
604.808.6655
LoriP@[...].com

© ActiveState Corporation 2002.

ActiveState, the Perl Dev Kit, PerlNET, and Visual Perl are trademarks
of ActiveState Corp.  Other company and product names herein may be trademarks of their resp
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