ActiveState Announces Appointment of David Ascher as Chief Technologist.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2003 ActiveState, a leading provider of professional tools for programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists , today announced the appointment of David Ascher to the positions of chief technologist, ActiveState; and director, tools and languages, for parent company Sophos Plc., effective immediately. Ascher has over 15 years of experience as a developer, consultant, and advocate of open source software. In this role, Ascher will provide business and technical leadership for ActiveState's tools, languages, and resources for open source programming languages; as well as providing strategic direction for the integration of open source technologies within Sophos's development methodologies. Ascher is a director of the Python Software Foundation The Python Software Foundation (PSF), is a non-profit organization devoted to the Python programming language. It was launched March 6, 2001. The mission of the foundation is to foster development of the Python community. and frequent speaker at software conferences, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual convention for the discussion of open source software, such as Linux, MySQL, Perl and Python. It is organized by the publisher O'Reilly Media and is held each summer in the United States. . He co-authored Learning Python Python, in Greek mythology Python, in Greek mythology, a huge serpent. In some myths the infant Apollo slew Python at the oracle of Gaea in Delphi; in others Apollo killed the serpent in order to claim the oracle for himself. and co-edited The Python Cookbook (programming) cookbook - (From amateur electronics and radio) A book of small code segments that the reader can use to do various magic things in programs. One current example is the "PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook" by Adobe Systems, Inc (Addison-Wesley, ISBN , both published by O'Reilly & Associates; and helped develop and document the Numeric numeric see numerical. numeric cluster see ten-key pad. and PyOpenGL Python extensions. "David is David I, king of Scotland David I, 1084–1153, king of Scotland (1124–53), youngest son of Malcolm III and St. Margaret of Scotland. During the reign of his brother Alexander I, whom he succeeded, David was earl of Cumbria, ruling S of the Clyde a key figure in the open source community, and his business and technical expertise make him a natural choice to head up the ActiveState division," said Steve Munford, global vice president, messaging, Sophos. "His guidance will contribute significantly to ActiveState's continued growth and leadership position in the open source tools space." "I'm thrilled and proud to lead the ActiveState brand forward, especially with the backing of Sophos, which provides a global organization with complementary market reach," said Ascher. "We are growing our already strong team, which is again hard at work on the next major releases of our core products." ActiveState continues to develop and support its tools for open source languages, this week releasing several updates to its tools portfolio, including Komodo 2.5.1 for Solaris, Perl Dev Kit 5.3, Visual Perl 1.8.1, and ActivePerl 5.8.1.807. Tcl Dev Kit 3.0, a major release, will ship before the end of the year. About ActiveState ActiveState, a division of Sophos, is the leading provider of software solutions that increase developer productivity and organizational efficiency through the innovative use of open source technology. Over two million developers rely on ActiveState's open source language programming tools, language distributions, and enterprise support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . More information is at http://www.ActiveState.com. Note to Editors: ActivePerl, ActiveState, Komodo, Perl Dev Kit, Tcl Dev Kit, and Visual Perl are trademarks of ActiveState, a division of Sophos. All other company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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