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Whether you’re deploying a cloud application for external users, testing a mission-critical enterprise workflow, or running a CPU-intensive financial scenario simulation to the cloud, ActiveState's ActivePython Business Edition will help you develop and deploy faster on Amazon EC2 with confidence.

With ActivePython Business Edition, you get the support you need and quality you can rely on to build your business-critical systems. Build once and deploy with the assurance that the Python you use for prototyping will work in all your production environments.

In addition to everything available in Community Edition, with ActivePython Business Edition, you get:

  • Stable, quality-assured Python distribution used by millions of developers
  • License to deploy cloud applications to users external to your company
  • Technical support including installation, usage, configuration, and diagnosis support
  • Additional Python packages to:
    • Connect to databases: Postgres (psycopg2), Oracle (cx_Oracle), ODBC (pyodbc), Microsoft SQL Server (pymssql)
    • Enable security in your cloud applications: M2Crypto
    • Build financial and scientific computing applications: Numpy, Scipy, matplotlib

For a full list of the modules available in Business Edition, visit PyPM Index.

The Power of Amazon EC2 & ActivePython Business Edition

With the ActivePython Amazon Machine Image (AMI), Python developers can now develop and deploy cloud-based applications to Amazon EC2 privately and securely. The ActivePython AMI comes with a complete Best Practices LAMP stack, with all the components and Python packages required for you to have your own enterprise-ready AMI instance.

ActivePython Business Edition is an excellent starting point. Subscribe now and get started: http://www.activestate.com/activepython.

ActivePython Business Edition includes our stable, supported, quality-assured Python distribution used by millions of developers around the world for easy Python installation and quality-assured code. Read more »
The Python Package Manager (PyPM) is the package manager for ActivePython. It provides quick installation of thousands of packages for many Python versions and platforms. Read more »