ActiveState's Komodo IDE Finalist for eWeek Excellence Award

June 2, 2007; 03:18 AM

ActiveState, the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic languages, announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the IT industry's leading enterprise magazines, has named Komodo IDE a finalist in eWEEK's seventh Annual Excellence Awards program, in the Best Application Development Tool category.

Komodo IDE 4 is a powerful, multi-platform, multi-language IDE for end-to-end development of dynamic web applications. Komodo IDE makes creating robust web apps fast and easy, with a rich feature set for client-side Ajax technologies such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML, coupled with advanced support for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl.

"Over a year of development and quality assurance effort went into version 4.0 of Komodo, which added features that enable developers to create entire web applications-server, browser, and the HTTP conversation that connects them-within a single unified workspace," said Shane Caraveo, Komodo Dev Team Lead. "It's great to have our team's work on Komodo IDE 4.0 recognized by the eWEEK editors and the senior IT reader advisers to eWEEK." The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries is a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners-senior enterprise IT professionals who act as reader representatives.

"We were very impressed by the quality of the entries we received this year, as well as by the number of entries-more than 800," said eWEEK Editorial Director Eric Lundquist. "It was a real challenge to choose the finalists because all of the entries reflect the tremendous effort the industry is making to respond to the increasing demands businesses are placing on technology."

Winners will be announced on June 11 at eWEEK.com, and will be published in a special report in the June 25th edition of eWEEK.

Komodo IDE

Komodo IDE 4 is a powerful, multi-platform, multi-language IDE for end-to-end development of dynamic web applications. Komodo IDE makes creating robust web apps fast and easy, with a rich feature set for client-side Ajax technologies such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML, coupled with advanced support for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl. Komodo IDE licenses are $295 US for use across Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Learn more about Komodo IDE at http://www.activestate.com/komodo_ide.

Komodo Edit

Based on the award-winning Komodo IDE, Komodo Edit is a free, feature-rich editor for the full range of Komodo-supported dynamic languages, Ajax technologies and platforms. Learn more about Komodo Edit at http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit.

About ActiveState

ActiveState is the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic languages such as JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl. Millions of developers rely on ActiveState's cross-platform, professional development tools, high-quality language distributions, and enterprise services. ActiveState is owned by its employees and Pender Financial Group, a publicly traded investment company focused on technology and healthcare sectors in British Columbia. Learn more at http://www.activestate.com.