July 2015 - HP Acquires Stackato; Komodo 9.2 Release; ActivePerl 5.22 is now available

ActiveState Newsletter - July 2015 HP Acquires Stackato Private PaaS from ActiveState HP has acquired the Stackato product from ActiveState! Stackato is our platform (or PaaS) for enterprise IT departments and developers, based on various open source projects, including Cloud Foundry and Docker. Members of the team will be joining HP to help continue to grow Stackato as part of HP’s Cloud business. ActiveState will continue as a company and will retain all of our other products including ActivePerl, ActivePython, ActiveTcl, and Komodo IDE. Read More   Webinar: One PaaS, Many Clouds These days a wide array of cloud infrastructures are available--all have their advantages and disadvantages and use cases. In this webinar, John Wetherill, ActiveState Technology Evangelist, will demonstrate the process involved in provisioning a multi-tier cloud application across multiple IaaS offerings including OpenStack on HPCS, Microsoft Azure, AWS, vSphere, and a laptop-based microcloud. Register Now   Are You Building Your Own PaaS with Docker? Docker continues to be a hot topic in our industry and certainly on the ActiveState blog! This month Bart Copeland looked at how Docker fits into Enterprise IT; Troy Topnik showed you how to Make Docker Apps for Stackato; John Wetherill shared an excerpt of his talk at ContainCamp and his thoughts on DockerCon 2015. Read More   Dragons and Docker and Vagrant: Komodo 9.2 Beta Komodo 9.2 is in beta and now includes Docker and Vagrant support, focus mode (clear away all the distractions), EditorConfig, and more, all in addition to the latest shell scope, package manager integrations, and package installers. Learn more and try the beta - full release coming in early August! Read More   Team Collaboration in Your IDE - Improved! Along with the other great goodies coming out with Komodo 9.2, Komodo's collaboration tool has a greatly improved user experience. Download the Komodo for Teams datasheet to learn about the power of Komodo for your organization, and try the Komodo 9.2 beta to check out collaboration updates. Learn More   ActivePerl 5.22 Available ActivePerl 5.22 is now available, and thanks to a fix to upstream Perl by one of our own ActiveState devs, the issue of "Perls built with MinGW may have components with duplicate pointers" is resolved in both Perl 5.22 and ActivePerl 5.22. Learn more about ActivePerl community, business, enterprise and OEM options. Learn More   Keep up to date on all ActiveState news! Click here to read the complete newsletter   1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133

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Fireside Chat Next Tues: How Open Source is Changing Enterprise IT, with Matt Asay, VP of Mobile, Adobe

sherly, Open source has gone from a fringe movement to the catalyst of a profound change in software development and distribution. Enterprises are using open source technologies more commonly than ever before due to the rapid pace of change in today's economy and the agility that open source provides. In the next fireside chat, open source business leader Matt Asay joins Bernard Golden to explore the current state of open source — its benefits, challenges, dynamics and adoption within enterprise IT. Register to attend next Tuesday's webcast. Date: Tuesday, August 4th, 2015 Time: 10 am PT / 1 pm ET / 6 pm GMT (1 hour) Join the conversation! Real-time Q&A. #CLFchat on Twitter. This discussion will cover topics such as: Why open source has taken the enterprise IT market by storm The future of proprietary software How open source is a key component of Third Platform strategies Building open source organizational skills The paradox of "full stack" developers If you have attended a previous fireside chat, you will be automatically registered for this edition and will receive a confirmation email. Guest Luminary: Matt Asay, VP, Mobile, Adobe Matt Asay has been involved with mobile and open source since 1998. He has ran marketing and community for MongoDB; has served as VP of business development at real-time analytics company Nodeable (acquired by Appcelerator in October 2012); VP of business development at mobile HTML5 start-up Strobe (now part of Facebook); chief operating officer at Canonical, the Ubuntu Linux company; and general manager of the Americas at Alfresco, a content management vendor. Hosted by Bernard Golden, VP of Strategy, ActiveState Named in Wired.com as one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing, Bernard Golden has authored or co-authored four books on virtualization, including Virtualization for Dummies and Amazon Web Services for Dummies, and is the cloud computing advisor for CIO.com. Attend Next Week's Fireside Chat We look forward to seeing you next Tuesday! - The Stackato Team, ActiveState Invite your colleagues:   Copyright © 2015 ActiveState Software Inc. All rights reserved.  |  1700 - 409 Granville Street   Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 1T2  |  ActiveState.com  |  Phone: (778) 786 1100  |  Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581

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How is Open Source Changing Enterprise IT? Next Fireside Chat, Aug. 4th

sherly, Open source has gone from a fringe movement to the catalyst of a profound change in software development and distribution. Enterprises are using open source technologies more commonly than ever before due to the rapid pace of change in today's economy and the agility that open source provides. In the next fireside chat, open source business leader Matt Asay joins Bernard Golden to explore the current state of open source — its benefits, challenges, dynamics and adoption within enterprise IT. Register to attend the webcast. Date: Tuesday, August 4th, 2015 Time: 10 am PT / 1 pm ET / 6 pm GMT (1 hour) Join the conversation! Real-time Q&A. #CLFchat on Twitter. This discussion will cover topics such as: Why open source has taken the enterprise IT market by storm The future of proprietary software How open source is a key component of "Third Platform" strategies Building open source organizational skills The paradox of "full stack" developers If you have attended a previous fireside chat, you will be automatically registered for this edition and will receive a confirmation email. Guest Luminary: Matt Asay, VP, Mobile, Adobe Matt Asay has been involved with mobile and open source since 1998. He has ran marketing and community for MongoDB; has served as VP of business development at real-time analytics company Nodeable (acquired by Appcelerator in October 2012); VP of business development at mobile HTML5 start-up Strobe (now part of Facebook); chief operating officer at Canonical, the Ubuntu Linux company; and general manager of the Americas at Alfresco, a content management vendor. Hosted by Bernard Golden, VP of Strategy, ActiveState Named in Wired.com as one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing, Bernard Golden has authored or co-authored four books on virtualization, including Virtualization for Dummies and Amazon Web Services for Dummies, and is the cloud computing advisor for CIO.com. Attend The Next Fireside Chat Press Release: ActiveState Reveals Five Advantages of Leveraging Open Source Technologies for Enterprise Application Development Cost, Community and Innovation Among Key Reasons for Organizations to Engage with Open Source Technologies VANCOUVER, British Columbia – July 22, 2015 – The IT world is quickly shifting to the "Third Platform", which IDC coined as the confluence of social, mobile, analytics (big data) and cloud as the foundation for next generation IT. When it comes to staying competitive in the Third Platform world, open source will be a requirement, not an option. ActiveState today shared the top advantages of leveraging open source technologies in enterprise application development. Read the announcement. We look forward to seeing you at our next Fireside Chat on August 4th! - The Stackato Team, ActiveState Invite your colleagues:   Copyright © 2015 ActiveState Software Inc. All rights reserved.  |  1700 - 409 Granville Street   Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 1T2  |  ActiveState.com  |  Phone: (778) 786 1100  |  Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581

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