PythonLabs Lives!

The core of the Python development team, including Guido van Rossum, Tim Peters, Fred Drake, Jeremy Hylton, and Barry Warsaw just got snapped up by BeOpen and is forming PythonLabs. (How BeOpen's going to make money is anyone's guess, though probably for-pay, Open Source add-ons, docs, consulting, training, etc.) The most important result of this is that these guys will now be working on Python full-time, which is a great development (and certainly seemed to help Perl when O'Reilly hooked up Larry Wall with a similar situation).

So now there are Canadian and American commercial Python development entities joining Fred Lundh's outfit in Sweden: ActiveState and PythonLabs.

Long live Python!