ASPN delivers tools and knowledge to enable programming with open source technologies.
Programmers can develop in the language and platform that maps best to their coding task.
Komodo IDE for Perl and Python, with PHP, Tcl and XSLT coming Visual Studio. To empower a broader class of programmers with open source and to enable programmer productivity, ActiveState launched ASPN in multiple levels. ASPN Open is a free online resource where casual and new programmers can easily access a comprehensive knowledge base. Technical references, cookbooks, sample code and ActiveState documentation are categorized and searchable online. ASPN Open also includes ActiveState's popular, quality-assured, binary distributions of open source programming languages, which have had over a million downloads in the past year.