ActiveState reactivates

Posted by dave on Apr 7, 2006 11:54 AM EDT
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David Ascher, CTO and vice president of engineering for programming tool vendor ActiveState, has seen his company through several incarnations. The latest change is ActiveState's re-emergence as an independent company after more than two years as a subsidiary of security software vendor Sophos. I talked with Ascher about what ActiveState's new status means, where the company has been and where it's going. His answers illustrate the challenges of building a company around free and open source software, and reflect how the market for FOSS has changed over the last six years.

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