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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> ActiveState
[mailto:marcom@activestate.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, 14 June 2011
22:44<BR><B>To:</B> Timothy Hunt<BR><B>Subject:</B> ActiveState has Acquired
Phenona, Perl Cloud Company<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ActiveState
has <STRONG>big news</STRONG> to share with
you:</SPAN><BR><BR><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We
have acquired Phenona, a Perl PaaS (Platform as a
Service)!</SPAN></STRONG><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><STRONG>Phenona</STRONG>
was founded by 15-year-old Daniil Kulchenko of Seattle when he
couldn't find a way to deploy his contract Perl apps to the cloud.
He decided that there should <EM>and could</EM> be an easy solution
for Perl cloud deployment, created Phenona, and took the Phenona
solution to beta a few months back.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The
Phenona technology, knowledge, and talent will extend our cloud
strategy while helping us accelerate our development in the
fast-paced cloud market. Phenona’s use of open source components,
portability, security and multi-tenancy model all fit closely with
our <STRONG>cloud strategy</STRONG> and we will leverage Phenona’s
stack into the ActiveState cloud product
roadmap.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The
acquisition of Phenona solidifies our commitment to bring you, our
ActiveState customers and subscribers, the <STRONG>best solutions
for dynamic (scripting) languages on the
cloud</STRONG>.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ActiveState
recently entered the cloud market with <A
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the first end-to-end enterprise cloud platform for Perl and Python
(currently in Developer Preview).</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Read
the full Phenona acquisition <A
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Developer Preview</A>, and get your Perl and Python apps on the
cloud!</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
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