ActiveState Releases ActivePerl 5.6 To The Community; Now Available for Linux and Solaris.Business Editors/High Tech Writers VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 2000 ActiveState, a leading supplier of products and services supporting Open Source Software, announced today that ActivePerl 5.6 is now available for download. ActivePerl 5.6 is ActiveState's value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. , binary distribution Binary distribution is when a country has 2 or more dominant cities (megacities). [1] Countries with binary distribution
"ActivePerl 5.6 is both more powerful and easier to use. Thus we're expecting an increase in the already substantial number of downloads from last year, which totaled 4.5 million," stated Dick Hardt Dick Hardt (May 28, 1963) is the founder and CEO of Sxip Identity. He is an advocate of Identity 2.0. Hardt has spoken at tech events such as Web 2.0, Supernova, Digital ID World, ETech, OSCON, PICNIC, W3C, ISOC, Anti-Phishing Working Group, at New York University (NYU), , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , ActiveState. "We are committed to the evolution of and broadening the appeal of core Open Source Perl and Python technologies. "This distribution, in addition to our commercially supported solutions, melds the advantages of Open Source's innovations and commercial software's quality assurance for Web professionals." "I believe the ActivePerl 5.6 release marks a new level of productivity for Perl users on Linux, Solaris and Windows," stated Gurusamy Sarathy, Senior Developer, ActiveState and ActivePerl 5.6 Release Manager. "We have worked very hard to give users everything they're going to need. And when I say 'everything', I mean everything. Some of these major features include: beginnings of support for Unicode, ability to run concurrent interpreters, better 64-bit and large filesystem support, new regular expression constructs, and tutorials on various subjects. "Plus Windows users will have increased compatibility with CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) The source for knowledge, software and documentation for the Perl programming language. For more information, visit www.cpan.org. See Perl. CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network extensions, Windows 2000 installation support, and access to native Unicode functionality in Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and 2000 environments." Benefits of ActivePerl 5.6:
-- Cross platform. Available on Windows, Linux and Solaris
platforms.
-- Installation is faster with the binary build.
-- Documentation is in html and is easily accessible.
-- Modules are easily installed, removed, and upgraded with the Perl
Package Manager (PPM).
-- Fast. Runs CGI scripts with IIS and is up to 48x quicker.
"Perl has been a huge underground success story," said Tim O'Reilly This article is about the founder of O'Reilly Media. For the musician, see Tim O'Reilly (musician). Tim O'Reilly (Irish: Tadhg Ó Raghallaigh, 1954-) was born in Cork, Ireland. , CEO of O'Reilly & Associates. "But the lack of standardized support and distribution limits its availability to many of those who could benefit from it. ActiveState's ActivePerl 5.6 makes Perl accessible at a whole new level." About ActiveState: ActiveState is at the forefront of Open Source providing products for all popular Operating Systems including Windows, Linux and Solaris. ActiveState's key technology platforms are Perl, the Internet's most popular Open Source programming language and Python, a user-friendly Open Source scripting language A high-level programming, or command, language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting, or script, language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be limited to specific functions used to augment the running of an . About Perl: Perl has long been the most popular Web programming language and is currently used by companies such as Amazon.com, MP3.com, and Deja.com to run their Websites. Perl is an interpretive language See interpreted language. , which makes it easy to build and test simple programs. Perl is also robust enough to allow for the creation of complex programs. Because Perl is extremely useful in "gluing" together smaller programs into larger applications, it has often been referred to as "the duct tape of the Internet." Due to its strong text processing abilities, Perl has become one of the most popular languages for building Internet applications and is currently used by over one million programmers worldwide. With the Internet as the standard medium for the transfer of business information, Perl is an integral part of web developers, administrators and system administrators' tools on Linux, 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). and Windows platforms. Note to Editors: ActivePerl is a trademark of ActiveState Tool Corp. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective organizations. |
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