ActiveState & HP Partner on ActivePerl for HP-UX.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers VANCOUVER, British Columbia & PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Aug. 13, 2002 ActiveState Corp., the leader in open language-based software, services, and resources, and HP (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HPQ HPQ Hewlett-Packard Corporation (NYSE) HPQ High Priority Queue ) announce a new agreement for optimizing the most popular open source programming language, Perl, for the HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. operating system. ActiveState's quality-assured distribution of Perl, ActivePerl, is now available for HP-UX 11.0 and HP-UX 11i, which is ranked the #1 UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platform in the world according to DH Brown's 2002 UNIX Function Review. ActivePerl is supported on systems running HP-UX 11.0/11i PA-RISC (Precision Architecture-RISC) A proprietary RISC-based CPU architecture from HP that was introduced in 1986. It is the foundation of HP's 3000 and 9000 computer families. See IA-64. and HP-UX 11i for the Intel(R) Itanium(TM) Processor Family. "We're delighted to work with HP to extend ActiveState's Perl initiatives on additional UNIX platforms. We've had over one million ActivePerl downloads in the past year, and now an even wider range of enterprise users will be able to take advantage of the power of Perl on the HP-UX platform," said Shawn Thomas, Director, Business Development, ActiveState. "It's been great working with ActiveState on this project to extend ActivePerl's platform list to include HP-UX," said Mary Kwan, HP-UX 11i Product Marketing Manager from HP. "Their contribution to the community is invaluable to users who want the ease of use, reliability, and technical services that ActivePerl provides." Under this agreement, ActiveState is porting ActivePerl to HP-UX and ensuring the easy installation and management of Perl extensions on HP-UX through ActiveState's Perl Package Manager Perl Package Manager (PPM) is a Perl utility intended to simplify the tasks of locating, installing, upgrading and removing software packages. It can determine if the most recent version of a software package is installed on a system, and can install or upgrade that (PPM). ActiveState is also providing technical support to HP Support centers. To obtain a free download, visit us at http://www.software.hp.com. About ActiveState Corp. ActiveState is the leader in open language-based software, services, and resources. Our solutions are used by 72% of the Fortune 500 and encompass cross-platform and Web services development, and server-side email management. Our key technologies are Perl, PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. , Python, Tcl, and XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema). . ActiveState's solutions empower people through computing, minimizing obstacles for programmers, and increasing productivity in the enterprise. More information is available at http://www.ActiveState.com. About HP HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and businesses. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. HP completed its merger transaction involving Compaq Computer Corp. on May 3, 2002. The company would have had combined revenue on a pro forma As a matter of form or for the sake of form. Used to describe accounting, financial, and other statements or conclusions based upon assumed or anticipated facts. The phrase pro forma basis with the Compaq transaction of approximately $81.1 billion in fiscal 2001 and has operations in more than 160 countries. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com. (C) ActiveState Corporation 2002. ActiveState and ActivePerl are trademarks of ActiveState Corp. All other company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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