Attn: Business & Technology Editors

Congratulations to the Active Award Winners:
Presented by ActiveState at O'Reilly Open Source Conference 

PORTLAND, OR - July 9, 2003 - ActiveState, the leader in professional
programming tools for open source developers, is pleased to announce the
winners of the 2003 Active Awards, presented July 8, 2003, at the
O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon. 

The Active Awards are held annually to honor members of the open source
community who *actively* contribute to open languages and display
excellence in their programming efforts.  The categories include each of
ActiveState's key technologies: Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT.

Programmers' Choice Award winners were nominated and chosen by the open
source community.  Activators' Choice Award winners were chosen by
ActiveState's development team.

The Programmers' Choice winners are:

* Perl - Tim Bunce is a core Perl developer and author and maintainer of
the DBI, DBD::Oracle, and Oracle::OCI modules.

* PHP - Stig Bakken is the father of PEAR, the PHP Extension and
Application Repository, which had its 1.0 release in December 2002.

* Python - Mark Hammond is the author of many of the Windows extensions
for Python, and co-author of the COM framework and extensions.

* XSLT - Uche Ogbuji & Mike Olson are developers of 4Suite, an XSLT
processor and XSLT-based server framework; and contributors to the XPath
and XSLT components of PyXML.  They write extensively on XPath, XSLT and
Python. Ogbuji is co-founder of the EXSLT and XPath NG projects.

The Activators' Choice winners are:

* Perl - Ilya Zakharevich is a prolific contributor of ideas and code to
the Perl 5 project over the years.  A candid, colorful, and almost
constant presence on Perl Usenet groups and the Perl 5 developers'
mailing list, he has deeply affected the way Perl "gets the job done."
Perl has its unique regex features, neat operator overloading, sane
numerics, and insanely useful debugger features thanks to Ilya.

* PHP - Ilia Alshanetsky is a member of PHPs QA team, who spends
countless hours closing bugs and generally making PHP better.  He's also
the lead developer of the successful fudforum software package, and has
made major contributions to several popular extensions such as GD,
ncurses, and shared memory support.

* Python - Martin von Löwis' has displayed doggedness and quiet
determination at dealing with some of the most unrewarding yet crucial
tasks in development.  Notable examples include shepherding bugs through
their lifecycle from submission to resolution, helping Python and Tk
work well together, pushing Python to support as much Unicode as
reasonable, and answering many questions on Python's internals on
mailing lists.

* XSLT - Ken Holman has been an active participant in several
standardization efforts for various structed text technologies,
including XML, XSLT, and DSSSL; has written several papers and books in
the field, most notably a book on XSL-FO; and is an active educator.

For the list of all language finalists and the contest rules please
visit: http://www.ActiveState.com/ActiveAwards.  The Tcl winners will be
announced later this summer at the 10th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference.
Congratulations to all our nominees, and thanks to everyone who
participated.  

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, ActiveState
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604.808.6655

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Copyright ActiveState Corporation 2003.


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