April News: CloudSigma, Citrix and Komodo IDE Updates

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Hi sherly, Welcome to our April newsletter! Here's what's new at ActiveState: CloudSigma Announces Stackato Reseller Agreement Blog: Citrix Takes CloudStack to Apache Komodo IDE Named CODiE Awards Finalist, New Demo Available ActiveState at Cloud Foundry Open Tour, Cloud Fair All the best, The ActiveState Team @ActiveState CloudSigma Announces Stackato Reseller Agreement We're proud to announce that CloudSigma, the international, customer-centric, pure cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, has signed on to resell Stackato as part of its cloud service offerings. "Stackato provides an excellent value-added Platform-as-a-Service that we can now offer to our customers," commented CloudSigma CEO Patrick Baillie. Read the announcement. ActiveBlog: Citrix Takes CloudStack to Apache Citrix has announced that its CloudStack solution will join the Apache Software Foundation, becoming the first Apache cloud platform project - great news for open source and cloud computing. "(ActiveState) Stackato's private-PaaS middleware solution complements CloudStack," notes Sheng Liang, CTO of the Citrix Cloud Platforms Group. Read the blog post. Komodo IDE Named "Best Software Development Solution" CODiE Finalist We're excited to hear that Komodo IDE has been named a finalist in the 2012 CODiE Awards, with winners being announced in May. Go Komodo! Komodo IDE 7 offers new features such as integration with Stackato, synchronization of user settings across multiple computers, and real-time, multi-user editing (aka Code Collaboration). Watch the new Collaboration screencast. ActiveState Speaking at Cloud Foundry Open Tour, Cloud Fair On the road again! ActiveState's Ingy dot Net and Diane Mueller have upcoming talks at Cloud Foundry Open Tour and Cloud Fair respectively. If you will be in Austin, TX today, Washington, DC on Apr. 9, or Seattle on Apr. 17, let us know! We might just have discount registration codes... Learn more about Cloud Foundry Open Tour and Cloud Fair. Want to win a license of Komodo IDE, or Perl or Tcl Dev Kit? Simply reply with your feedback or suggestions. One randomly drawn winner will get a complimentary license! Stackato 1.2 Komodo 7.0.2 Cloud Foundry Open Tour Gold Sponsor Apr. 2, Portland, OR Apr. 5, Austin, TX Apr. 9, Washington, DC Cloud Fair 2012 Gold Sponsor Apr. 17-19, Seatle, WA See all upcoming events. 1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | www.activestate.com Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133

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March Newsletter: Appsembler Announces Stackato Integration

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Issue 42 March 2012 Welcome to the March issue of the ActiveState Code to Cloud Newsletter! In this issue you'll find: Stackato 1.0 Now Available! Appsembler Announces Stackato Integration Komodo IDE 7 Sale Extended Blog: Syntax Checking in Komodo 7 As always, please feel free to drop us a line if you have ideas for future issues or feedback.   The ActiveState Team Stackato 1.0 Now Available! Last week we launched Stackato 1.0! Although it was an important day for ActiveState, it was a far more important day for developers and enterprises looking to move to the cloud. Stackato is the application platform for creating a private, secure, flexible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) using any language on any stack on any cloud. From the desktop to the datacenter, Stackato makes it easy to develop, deploy, migrate, scale, manage, and monitor applications on any cloud. With Stackato, developers can simulate a production environment on a local machine, code, test, and then launch an application to any cloud. And Enterprise IT can achieve new levels of data security, reduce time to market, save money, ensure compliance, and gain greater control over the cloud. Learn more about Stackato and download the Stackato Micro Cloud today to get started. Stackato’s ability to support any technology platform, its ease of deployment and support for private cloud PaaS environments gives it a clear leadership position in the increasingly crowded PaaS space. Competitors include Red Hat’s OpenShift, CloudBees and Cloud Foundry, though few vendors match its combination of flexibility and ability to deploy private cloud PaaS environments. — Arnal Dayaratna, Cloud Computing Today Appsembler to Leverage Stackato for Hosted Service Appsembler has integrated ActiveState's Stackato application platform technology into its namesake hosted-service offering for Web applications in the cloud. Appsembler helps developers sell web applications as a hosted on-demand service with all billing, payment processing, hosting and customer-engagement hooks seamlessly and securely integrated. "We decided in January 2012 to create Appsembler", says CEO Nate Aune. "With Stackato, we're ready to launch in March. That's three months from concept to productization..." Read the full press release. Komodo IDE On Sale - Extended Through March 31 Since we released Komodo IDE 7 last month, we've received lots of great feedback: "Komodo's newly improved syntax checker is useful and very functional. It picked up errors in my JavaScript code, such as unmatched parenthesis and missing operators, almost instantly" - Ars Technica mfahydev After weeks of use, congrats to @ActiveState for #Komodo7. Both #KomodoEdit & IDE are unsung gems of OS X #coding. calendee Just updated to Komodo IDE 7 from @activestate. The best IDE out there. pawprint_net @activestate Great so far - best win so far for me is moving tabs to the right without tweakUI - it's the little things :) So by popular demand, we're extending our launch sale! Buy Komodo IDE 7 starting from $245 (reg. $295) from now through March 31. Download the 21-day trial. Buy Komodo IDE 7 or contact us for a formal quote. Blog: Diving Deep Into Komodo's Syntax Checker Eric Promislow has written two great blog posts on Komodo 7's syntax checking capabilities and extensibility. If you haven't read them yet, you're in for a treat. In Part 1, Eric shows Komodo 7's extensive out-of-the-box capabilities. The follow-up post shows how to take more control and add your own syntax checkers, including writing a linter for a new language (using Haml as an example), and writing a new linter for an existing language. Read Part 1 and Part 2 of the syntax checking blogs. Make a change in 2012. Work at ActiveState-- We're Hiring! This month's Quick Poll should take no more than a minute to complete. One participant will win a complimentary license of Komodo IDE 7, Perl Dev Kit or Tcl Dev Kit! Take the Quick Poll now. Thanks to everyone who participated last month, and congrats to our lucky winner, David Turkington! Komodo IDE 7.0.2 Stackato 1.0 Komodo IDE 7.0.1 ActiveTcl 8.4.19.6, 8.5.11.1, 8.6.0.0b7 ActiveState is proud to sponsor the following upcoming events: PyCon 2012 Mar. 9-11, Santa Clara, CA Gold Sponsor, Booth #211 featuring Appsembler! DrupalCon Denver Mar 20-22, Denver, CO Cloud Foundry Open Tour Mar 30, San Francisco, CA Gold Sponsor Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC::NA) Jun. 13-15, Madison, WI Gold Sponsor Planning an event we should know about? Have an event you recommend? Send us an email. Check out all upcoming events. Stay on top of the latest happenings at ActiveState - news, offers, contests and blogs. Follow us @activestate 1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | www.activestate.com Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133

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It's here! Welcome, ActiveState Stackato 1.0

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Hi sherly, You're a valued member of the ActiveState community, and we want to share the news with you first: It's here! Stackato 1.0, the application platform for creating a private PaaS using any language on any stack in any cloud, is now generally available for production use. It's a big day for us, and a big day for developers and enterprises looking to deploy applications in the cloud.   With Stackato, developers can simulate a production environment on a local machine, code, test, and then launch an application to any cloud. Enterprise IT can achieve new levels of data security, reduce time to market, save money, ensure compliance, and gain greater control over the cloud.   We hope you're as excited about Stackato as we are. If you're considering deploying applications to the cloud and would like to evaluate Stackato for your production environment, contact our sales team now at stackato-sales@activestate.com to learn more about how Stackato Enterprise can help your business. And if you'd like to test Stackato, visit our site to download the free Stackato Micro Cloud for your desktop client machine. (By the way, Stackato Micro Cloud will always remain free for use in single node. See this blog post for more details.) We have big plans for Stackato, and its future will be brighter with input from you. We love to hear from you, so please reach out to us: Email us at stackato-support@activestate.com. Regards, The ActiveState Stackato Team Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 ActiveState – Code to Cloud: Smarter, Safer, Faster™

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Your ActiveState News for February 2012

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Issue 41 February 2012 Welcome to the February issue of the ActiveState Newsletter! In this issue you'll find: New Release! Komodo IDE 7: The World's Fiercest IDE Upcoming Webinar: Implementing Private PaaS for a Secure Enterprise Cloud Blog: Improved Syntax Checking in Komodo 7 ActiveState Attending Cloud Connect As always, please feel free to drop us a line if you have ideas for future issues or feedback.   The ActiveState Team New Release! Komodo IDE 7: The World's Fiercest IDE ActiveState has announced the release of Komodo IDE 7. Groundbreaking new features include: Integration with Stackato for easy cloud deployment Syncing of settings across multiple workstations Code Collaboration for real-time, multi-user editing Support for Node.js, CoffeeScript, SCSS, LESS... ...and a lot more! Our lead Komodo IDE developer Todd Whiteman has written a great blog post, highlighting Komodo IDE 7's major new features. Read the blog post. And to celebrate the launch, Komodo IDE 7 is currently on sale, starting from $245 (reg. $295) through March 15! Buy Komodo IDE 7 today or contact us for a quote. Upcoming Webinar: Implementing Private PaaS for a Secure Enterprise Cloud Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012 Time: 10 AM PT / 1 PM EST Speakers: John Rymer, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research and Bart Copeland, President & CEO, ActiveState Space is limited so register now! The cloud promises to be a quick and simple way to deploy your applications, but you need more than just virtualized infrastructure to deploy and run your applications successfully. That's why Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) with public services like Google App Engine, Heroku, EngineYard, and DotCloud have gained popularity. As corporate mandates on data security and privacy compliance drive enterprises to adopt cloud strategies, how do you leverage the benefits of a PaaS that is secure, private, and customizable if your company doesn't permit you to use a public Paas? Learn how private PaaS helps address these issues in this webinar featuring John Rymer, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, and Bart Copeland, President & CEO at ActiveState. Spaces are filling up quickly. Register now to reserve your spot. Blog: Improved Syntax Checking in Komodo 7 Komodo has always been adept at working with multiple languages. When we realized that multi-language templating systems were becoming more common, we made it easier to create new colonizers for them. But until now, Komodo wasn't very flexible at checking the syntax of these documents. Komodo 7 identifies the different parts of a document, and hands each part over to a particular syntax checker. It then collects any error or warning messages from the different checkers, weaves them back together, and presents them all in one shot. Read the full blog post. ActiveState Attending Cloud Connect ActiveState is proud to be a Silver Sponsor at this year's Cloud Connect, Feb. 13-15 in Santa Clara, CA. We will be at Booth #623, and our own Cloud Evangelist, Diane Mueller, will be participating in a panel discussion: "Moving on Up: Enterprise Private PaaS" on Wed., Feb. 15. Will you be in Santa Clara on Feb. 13? Are you planning to attend Cloud Connect? If so, we'd love to meet you there! Don't worry, we're a friendly bunch. We also have guest discounts that we can extend to you if you are interested. Just let us know! Learn more about Cloud Connect. Make a change in 2012. Work at ActiveState-- We're Hiring! This month's Quick Poll should take no more than one minute to complete. One respondent will receive a complimentary license of Komodo IDE 7, just for taking the time to participate! Take the quick poll now. Thanks to everyone who participated in January's Quick Poll and congrats to our lucky winner! Komodo IDE 7.0.1 ActiveTcl 8.5.11.0 (Updated) ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0b7 Komodo IDE 7.0.0 ActiveState is proud to sponsor the following upcoming events: Cloud Connect Feb. 13-16, Santa Clara, CA Silver Sponsor PyCon 2012 Mar. 17-15, Santa Clara, CA Gold Sponsor DrupalCon Denver Mar 20-22, Denver, CO Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC::NA) Jun. 13-15, Madison, WI Gold Sponsor Planning an event we should know about? Have an event you recommend? Send us an email. Check out all upcoming events. Do you tweet? Seems everyone does these days. Stay on top of the latest happenings at ActiveState - news, offers, contests, blogs - and connect with other developers through Twitter. Follow us @activestate 1700 - 409 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2 | Canada | www.activestate.com Phone: (778) 786 1100 | Toll-Free: 1 (866) 631 4581 | Fax: (778) 786 1133

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