ActiveState Releases Komodo 3.0 
Powerful IDE deepens support for dynamic languages
VANCOUVER, BC, 2004/07/27

ActiveState, the leading provider of development tools and services for
dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and XSLT, today
announced Komodo 3.0 <http://www.ActiveState.com/Komodo> , the new major
release of its professional IDE for dynamic languages. The announcement,
made at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference, details Komodo's new
capabilities for rapidly building high-quality code, and demonstrates
ActiveState's continued commitment to professional tools that facilitate
the unique abilities of dynamic languages.

Komodo 3.0 builds on the foundation of previous releases, with the
addition of deep object and code browsing, and a new debugger (built on
the open source DBGP protocol, co-authored by ActiveState), tightly
integrated with the new multi-language interactive shell. A host of
other enhancements include multi-user support, broad customization,
powerful automation (including macros and triggers), improved Rx
(regular expression) Toolkit, and emacs key bindings. 

Rich Words, infrastructure analyst at John Deere & Company, comments:
"Komodo 3.0 has reduced the time, complexity and potential errors
associated with developing our administrative systems. It's very
flexible, readily adapting to our changing requirements. We use Komodo
every day, and are especially impressed with Komodo 3.0's ease-of-use
and debugging. We're extremely happy with it."

New in Komodo 3.0:
* Code browser and object browser 
- Increases developer productivity through facilitating easier code
browsing.

* Interactive shell (Perl, Python & Tcl) 
- Allows developers to work smarter through testing, exploring and
prototyping code in an interactive way. 

* New debugging system 
- Helps understand and fix bugs through a new system based on DBGP (an
open debugger protocol standard). New capabilities include multi-session
debugging, interactive debugging, enhanced variable viewers and a
breakpoint manager. 

* Workgroup support 
- Facilitates collaboration through a "Shared Toolbox" so team-specific
customizations can be shared between multiple users.

* Find in files 
- Increases developer efficiency through allowing users to quickly
search directories for files containing particular patterns.

* Rx Toolkit 
- Redesigned from the ground up, the new tool kit supports Match, Match
All, Replace, and Replace All.

* Extensibility 
- Users can customize Komodo 3.0's interface and add menus and toolbars
based on entries in the toolbox or loaded projects.

* Macros & triggers 
- Reworked to allow easier recording, saving and editing of macros. The
macro system allows power-users "deep" access into Komodo features,
using familiar programming languages.

"Komodo 3.0 offers a tremendous range of features across popular open
source languages. There's something for everyone." said Shane Caraveo,
Komodo Technical Lead at ActiveState. "Whether you're creating Python
end-user applications or Perl reporting scripts, coding PHP for
websites, or remotely managing Tcl programs, Komodo can help."

Komodo offers a powerful workspace for editing, debugging and testing
applications, with advanced support for Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and XSLT,
on Linux, Solaris and Windows. Features include a customizable
language-aware editor, extensible workspace, source code control
integration, web technologies support (including CGI, XML & XSLT), a
powerful regular expression toolkit, and comprehensive debugging
support. 

Komodo 3.0 Pro, for professional programmers, offers launch special
pricing of $245, until August 30, 2004 (regular price: $295). Komodo 3.0
Personal, for educational or non-commercial use, is $29.50. Promotional
upgrade pricing is also available. For more info, see:
http://www.ActiveState.com/Komodo


About ActiveState
ActiveState is the leading provider of tools for dynamic languages such
as Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and XSLT. Over two million developers rely on
ActiveState's professional development tools, high-quality language
distributions and enterprise services. 

Media & Analyst Inquiries:

Shantel Shave, ActiveState, a division of Sophos 
1.604.484.6454

Melissa Wong, Horn Group
1.415.905.4046



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