MLstate - the company behind Opa

History

MLstate is an innovative company founded in 2007 by a former researcher to change the face of web application development and bridge the gap between programming language research and industry practices.

As the result of outstanding R&D efforts, the agile and security-oriented web development platform, Opa, was open-sourced in June 2011. Since then, the company has been leading and coordinating further improvements to the platform. MLstate has also built a significant community around Opa. The product homepage, opalang.org, now averages approximately 1000 daily visits and exceeding 2000 monthly binary downloads.

Awards

Among other awards, MLstate was a finalist at Paris Innovation Grand Prix in 2007, cited in 'Best of' Atelier BNP Paribas and won the contest of French Ministry of Research in 2008. MLstate was a finalist of the 2011 Open World Forum Innovation Awards.

The company is a member of the W3C consortium and the international competitiveness cluster System@tic, the leader of the collaborative project SyGeO, funded by the French Ministry of Economy and a member of the Oseo Excellence (2000 high growth French companies).

Media

Opa also gained significant recognition in the media with JavaWorld, among others, writing, “Keep your eye on Opa, the new open source language that InfoWorld's Neil McAllister believes may transform Web development” and InfoWorld naming Opa as one of “10 programming languages that could shake up IT”.

Opa was also selected as a Dr.Dobb's language of the month in October 2011.