ActiveState's Komodo IDE honored in SD Times 100: 
Named "First Professional IDE for Scripting Languages"

VANCOUVER, BC - June 2, 2003 - ActiveState, the leader in programming
tools for open source developers and anti-spam software for enterprises,
is pleased to announce Komodo's recognition by SD Times in the "Tools
and Environments" category, as the first professional-quality IDE for
scripting language developers.  The SD Times 100 ranks companies and
organizations that demonstrated the greatest innovation and leadership
in the software development industry over the previous year.

Komodo by ActiveState provides a powerful workspace for editing,
debugging and testing applications.  Komodo is optimized for Perl,
Python, PHP, Tcl, XML, and XSLT, and runs on Microsoft Windows and
Linux.  Komodo offers an advanced language-aware editor with features
such as background syntax-checking and AutoCompletion; an easy-to-use,
yet powerful debugger; Source Code control; CGI emulation; templates;
and integration with ActiveState Programmer (ASPN) resources.  

"The SD Times 100 looked for companies which set a direction that
developers and the industry followed in 2002," said Alan Zeichick,
editor-in-chief of SD Times.  "When choosing the SD Times 100, we
carefully considered each company's offerings and reputation, as well as
the attention and conversation we've heard around the company and its
products and technologies, as a sign of leadership within the industry."

"Komodo went from a promise to a success in just a few years, and it's
deeply gratifying to see our hard work recognized by SD Times," said
David Ascher, Komodo Technical Lead, ActiveState.  "I want to extend
special thanks to our users, who have consistently given us the feedback
we needed to evolve Komodo into the tool they needed.  It's also quite
energizing as we look at the next round of evolutionary changes which
promise to make Komodo even easier to use and more powerful."

Komodo 2.3 Professional Edition, featuring Source Code Control
Integration, Visual Package Manager, and ActiveState GUI Builder,
targets professional programmers and is offered for $295.  Komodo 2.0
Personal Edition is designed for educational or non-commercial usage for
$29.50.  More details are available by visiting:
http://www.ActiveState.com/Komodo.

About SD Times:
Launched in February 2000, BZ Media's SD Times is the newspaper of
record for the software-development industry. SD Times is published
twice monthly in identical print and digital editions, and can also be
read online at http://www.sdtimes.com

About ActiveState Corp:
ActiveState is the leading provider of software solutions that increase
productivity and organizational efficiency through the innovative use of
open source technology.  Additional information on ActiveState's
industrial strength anti-spam software for enterprises and programming
tools for open source language developers is available at:
http://www.ActiveState.com.

Media & Analyst Inquiries:
Lori Pike, Director Corporate Communications
LoriP@[...].com
604.808.6655

ActiveState and Komodo are trademarks of ActiveState Corp.  All other
company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Copyright ActiveState Corporation 2003.
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