[IDE] - The Dynamic Opportunity - ActiveState Komodo IDE / Open Source

[Ilias Lazaridis]

followup to comp.lang.perl.misc

[I will read the other groups, too]

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The following suggestions result out of an one-day website review of
Active State [1].

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http://lazaridis.com/samples/com/ActiveState/

*Suggestions:*

Near Future:
   *Open* Source the Komodo IDE.

Immediately:
   *Free* the Personal Edition for non-commercial use (now $29,95 ).
   *Change* "killer" to "dynamic": Komodo - The Dynamic IDE.
   *Clarify* product overview on the home page.
   *Simplify* Komodo Trial download.
   *Automate* license installation.
   *Enhance* Company Section

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As a first step, a free personal edition (non-commercial and academic
use) would help to spread the Komodo IDE within the communities.

This would be a gentle contribution to the open source dynamic
languages, which are a foundation for the ActiveStates business.

An Open Source Komodo IDE would allow the several dynamic language
communities to collaborate on a common goal.

Dynamic Language are more powerfull than just for scripting, aren't
they? Placing this power on top of an huge java source-code base, like
eclipse is, reduces this power [3].

ActiveState has everything needed, including the backup of Sophos [4], a
large scale company in the threat-management domain (which would benefit 
from an open-source implementation, too).

This could (at a later point) become similar to the eclipse [2] project,
but specialized on dynamic languages.

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If you think that an Open Source Komodo IDE would be of benefit for the
dynamic languages, just ensure to spread this thought around.

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Any comments are very welcome.

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[1] - http://www.activestate.com

[2] - http://www.eclipse.org

[3] - http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/dltk/

[4] - http://www.sophos.com/

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