VANCOUVER, BC November 7, 2001 - ActiveState, the leader in open source
programming language tools, today announced the addition of two new
appointees to the Board.  George Reznik, VP Finance Pivotal Corporation,
joins the Board of Directors, providing broad experience in corporate
finance.  Mark Sochan, VP Business Development, SAP Portals, will contribute
his extensive background in OEM and channel partner licensing to the
Advisory Board.

“Bringing these new board members onto our team enables ActiveState to move
much deeper into enterprise sales and partnerships,” said Dick Hardt,
Founder & CEO, ActiveState.  “Their diversity of experience in finance,
partnerships, and innovative technologies, will help us succeed in our new
stage of growth.”

“I’m impressed by ActiveState’s success in being the dominant market leader
in their market at such an early stage in the company’s development," said
George Reznik, VP Finance Pivotal.  "I look forward to working with the
company as it grows to the next level and in providing guidance on
effectively managing financial initiatives.”

George Reznik, VP Finance, Pivotal Corporation
At Pivotal, George is responsible for corporate finance including business
planning, finance, and treasury management.  Prior to Pivotal, George was
with Deloitte and Touche, where he obtained extensive experience on
international corporate finance, business valuation, mergers and
acquisitions, divestitures and restructuring projects.

“In a short time, ActiveState has demonstrated incredible success in
bringing open source technology to enterprises.  Their strategic partnership
with Microsoft on Perl initiatives is key to leveraged success in the
marketplace," said Mark Sochan, VP Business Development, SAP Portals.  “I’m
looking forward to advising ActiveState in their partnering strategy.”

Mark Sochan, VP Business Development, SAP Portals
Mark is responsible for OEM and technology partnerships for SAP Portals.
Previously, he served as Director of Business Development at Seagate
Software, where he managed OEM and channel partner licensing activities for
Crystal Reports.

Increased Management Team
ActiveState has also broadened its management team.  Frederick Fajardo,
Director, Enterprise Product Management, comes to ActiveState from Ncompass
Labs, where he was a Group Product Manager.  Matt Herdon, Director, Product
Management, Programming Tools, was previously at Rational, where he was
responsible for the Rational Unified Process product line.  Steve
Schumacher, Software Development Manager, previously was an independent
consultant, assisting companies with the delivery of highly technical
software products for consumer and enterprise markets.

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.  For more
details go to http://www.ActiveState.com.

Media & Analyst Contacts:
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604.808.6655 / LoriP@[...].com

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