Sonatype provides a development infrastructure platform based on the Apache Maven project. Although many software development methodologies exist, when it comes to instructions used to construct, assemble, test, and deploy software in practice most systems are a set of ad-hoc tools and processes with no standardization, incurring very high costs.
With the advent of Maven there is now a common metadata model, common processes, and common practices that can be used to create a standard development infrastructure. This infrastructure can not only consume information from similar development infrastructures, but also expose critical data about the composition of software to the rest of an organization.
Sonatype is the Maven Company. Founded in 2008 by Jason van Zyl, the creator of Apache Maven, Sonatype delivers value-added products and services for organizations that use Maven to improve their software build and release infrastructure. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, Sonatype is privately held with investments from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Morgenthaler Ventures.
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About our company name
"The company is called Sonatype, which to us means an optimally healthy model. In fact, "sona" means gold in Hindi, and "type" means model in Latin, so Sonatype can be thought of as the gold standard in build and release engineering."--Jason van Zyl, founder and CTO of Sonatype (From Jason's interview on Dr. Dobb's)
