We are very excited to announce that Pydev, the popular Python and Jython IDE, is now part of the Aptana product family and that Pydev creator, Fabio Zadronzy, will head up continued efforts to advance Pydev as part of the Aptana team. Like our products for Ruby on Rails, Ajax, and PHP, Pydev offers code completion, refactoring, code analysis, debugging support, and lots lots more. Pydev's popularity in the Python community and Eclipse ecosystem made it the clear choice for Aptana. The acquisition sets the stage for a full Python suite of products and services ranging from local development to cloud deployment.

Interest in Python has been steadily growing and earlier this year got a big boost when Google announced that Python was the language for Google App Engine.

Dion Almaer, Open Web Advocate for Google recently commented "This has been a great year for the Python developer community with the advent of great frameworks such as Django and deployment solutions such as Google App Engine. Now the tooling is getting better all the time. One of the great tools is Pydev, especially if you are Eclipse-minded. Having Aptana take on Pydev only means progress for that project and Python developers."

Google is also a worldwide licensee of the commercial version of Pydev, Pydev Extensions, which includes even more high-productivity features for Python developers.

Today you can use the products side by side, installing Pydev into Aptana Studio, or plugging both into Eclipse. The combination gives Python developers access to all of Aptana's great tooling for Ajax and current Aptana Studio users access to one of the best Python IDEs out there, and the ease of using both together should increase as we integrate the products more closely over the coming months.

You can learn more about Pydev and Aptana's support for Python at http://www.aptana.com/python, or just go straight to the Pydev and Pydev Extensions sites for downloads and more details.

Please start submitting your ideas for future feature enhancements and how you'd like to see these products come together.