NumFOCUS is pleased to announce ActiveState is now a Corporate Sponsor at the Bronze Level.
“We’re proud to support NumFOCUS and its open source projects Matplotlib, pandas, PyTables, and SymPy”
“NumFOCUS is proud to become a partner with ActiveState,” said Andy Terrel, President, NumFOCUS Board of Directors. “Their importance in the community is widely regarded and their commercial Python and other open source language products help distribute the work of NumFOCUS projects to our large base of commercial users. Our partnership will give important resources to projects as they are able to maintain these crucial tools that help improve the lives of so many people.”
About NumFOCUS Corporate Sponsors
NumFOCUS Corporate Sponsors are for-profit companies who drive their business success using our open source projects. Corporate Sponsors invest in the development and sustainability of the open source scientific data stack through their financial support of NumFOCUS. Many sponsors also allocate employee paid time to development work on NumFOCUS open source projects.
About ActiveState
ActiveState is a leader in providing commercial open source language distributions. More than two million developers and 97% of Fortune 1000 companies use ActiveState open source language builds including CA, Cisco, Pepsi, Lockheed Martin and NASA. Last month ActiveState announced its SaaS platform for open source languages and led with a Python runtime solution.
“Our ability to deliver this is due to the work by NumFOCUS and its open source projects”
“We’re proud to support NumFOCUS and its open source projects Matplotlib, pandas, PyTables, and SymPy,” said Bart Copeland, CEO, ActiveState. “We are bullish on Python and are a proud contributor of the work done by its communities. Our ActivePython language distros have the machine learning packages to speed up algorithms, and our ability to deliver this is due to the work by NumFOCUS and its open source projects.”
ActiveState’s sponsorship helps support NumFOCUS along with four of our open source projects: Matplotlib, pandas, SymPy, and PyTables.
ActiveState, the Open Source Languages Company, provides enterprise-level programming language distributions backed with cross-platform consistency, commercial technical support, security reviews, license reviews, and indemnification. ActiveState’s products and services directly address the challenges faced by enterprises transitioning into digital and algorithmic businesses.
Founded in 1997, ActiveState is uniquely positioned to help address these challenges through its experience with enterprises, developers and codes. The Company’s products include ActivePerl®, ActivePython®, ActiveTcl®, and ActiveGo®, and the popular Komodo IDE® development environment. More than two million developers and 97% of Fortune-1000 companies including Bank of America, CA, Cisco, Pepsi, Lockheed Martin and NASA use ActiveState’s solutions to save time, minimize risk and accelerate time to market.
