Bart Copeland, CEO, ActiveStateTom Radcliffe, Director of Engineering, ActiveState

The Open Source Languages Company

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Today’s SpeakersBart CopelandCEO ActiveState

Tom RadcliffeDirector of EngineeringActiveState

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Agenda> History of ActiveState> How we got to the OSLC> Why do enterprises need open source> About Ruby, Go, Lua, Node.js> Why ActiveState languages > What’s next for Perl, Python, Tcl, Komodo> Q/A

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Why, What, How, When, Who...The Open Source

Languages Company (aka OSLC)

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ActiveState turns 20 years old in 2017!#OSLC

DevelopersEnterprise

Open Source

ActiveState 1.0

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DevelopersEnterprise

Open Source

ActiveState 2.0

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DevelopersEnterprise

Open Source

A recurring theme with ActiveState….

Siloed business units.

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Solution:Unified Product Stack

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(aka ActiveState 3.0)

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DevelopersEnterprise

Open Source

Why Open Source Languages?>Large communities!>Global, diverse, robust>Innovative, agile>Mature

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Why ActiveState Open Source?> It’s what we do! > We’ve solved the common denominator

problems> We understand how to build languages and support all major

OS & hardware platforms> Organizational knowledge - 20 yrs of experience!> Proven, repeatable systems> Long-term stability, enterprise grade trust> Worked with language communities over the long term

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Developer Considerations> Ease-of-use> Multi-platform support > Consistent experience across multiple

operating systems> Access to quality assured modules &

packages

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Enterprise Considerations> Quality assured builds of precompiled

language distributions> Commercially supported software with

SLAs> Support and active maintenance of older

versions> Software you can standardize on> Faster time to market

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Introducing….

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Ruby Node.js Go Lua

Why These Languages?

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ActiveState Languages Family

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ActivePoll:Which of the new language

distribution (Ruby, Node.js, Go, Lua) interests you the most?

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Who is usingRuby, Go, Node.js &

Lua?

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Ruby

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Go

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Lua

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Node.js

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Languages and MarketsRuby: Web (Rails)> Established> Needs support> Gem management

Go: Systems> Growing fast> Compiled> Needs debugger!

Lua: IoT> Lightweight> Popular> Strategic

Node.js: Server> Universal, growing> Powerful> Complex ecosystem

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ActiveState Language Distributions> Securing module ecosystem> Komodo IDE integration> Common package manager interface> Enhanced distributions> Legacy support> Indemnification> Multi-platform

Available Editions> Community Edition

> Two most recent versions of the software, free for non-production use> Business Edition

> Current and legacy versions, commercially supported on Windows/OSX/Linux, small installation base

> Enterprise Edition> Current and legacy versions, commercially supported/site-wide

licensing with enterprise-grade support, IP indemnification, and access to multiple platforms, larger installation base

> OEM Edition> Allows companies to to redistribute ActiveState languages with their

products, taking care of all licensing issues#OSLC

Sign up for more information> www.activestate.com/Ruby

> www.activestate.com/Go

> www.activestate.com/Node

> www.activestate.com/Lua

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What’s next for Perl, Python, Tcl & Komodo?

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ActivePoll:Would you like more information

on these new (or existing) language distributions?

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Q/ASign up to be first in line!● Ruby: www.activestate.com/Ruby● Go: www.activestate.com/Go● Node.js: www.activestate.com/Node● Lua: www.activestate.com/Lua

For more information, contact: Jeff RouseDirector of Product Managementjeffr@activestate.com© Copyright 2016

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