Hello,

At some point within the next few days you will probably hear the news
that ActiveState has been acquired by the anti-virus software company
Sophos, and possibly wondered how this will impact our Visual Studio
.Net plug-ins.

In a word, it will be business as usual.

* We will continue to develop, sell, and support languages and tools
  under the ActiveState brand.

* Our involvement in the open source community will continue as
  before.

* Our development team will remain intact and continue to work out of
  the same offices.

* We will be maintaining the same email addresses and phone numbers
  for support.

You can read the official letter to our customers at
http://www.activestate.com/corporate/letter/, but you'll
see that I've basically condensed it here.

If you have any questions, please send them to me at
EricP@[...].com, or preferably, post to this list so we can all
discuss it.

Thanks for your continued interest and support in our Visual Studio
.Net plug-ins.  We're looking forward to carrying out further
improvements to them, taking your suggestions (and bug reports),
and implementing more cool features.

Regards,
Eric

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Eric Promislow
Visual Studio .NET Plugins Development Lead
EricP@[...].com
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