This week Aptana shipped the 2 millionth copy of Aptana Studio! This is a huge milestone for Aptana for which we owe a big thank you to the community -- not just for downloading Studio, but more importantly for helping make Aptana Studio the leading open source IDE in its category through your feedback, ideas, and suggestions (and for reporting bugs when they happen).

For Open Source Developers by Open Source Developers

We really see the success of Aptana products stemming from the philosophy that it's "for developers by developers" and our open source model help us fulfill that through rapid release cycles, nightly builds, and overall a more fluid process that's constantly taking in feedback from the community. And what better kind of solution is there than the one the community told us to build.

We're continuing that philosophy now with our Aptana Cloud offering (currently in beta) as well as our support for Ruby on Rails, PHP and LAMP development, and of course app development with Ajax libraries on the client side and for those that want server-side Ajax, Aptana Jaxer, a first-of its kind open source Ajax server built around the Mozilla browser engine.

Help us help you. Join the Aptana Early Access Programs

Cloud, PHP and Jaxer are all in active beta stages right now and you can get your hands on them through the Aptana Cloud Early Access Program, so it's a great time to request early access and give early feedback. RadRails, for streamlined Ruby on Rails development is already 1.0 so feedback in the forums and the bug/enhancement system right now is best for that. This early feedback has direct and immediate impact on what we'll ship this year. So now is the time. Got something you want to see in Aptana's offerings? Let us know. Get involved. Help us help you.