So How Open is your Open Source Company Anyway?
Luke Kanies, the creator of Puppet, commented in his last entry about Open Source business models, specifically the idea of an Open Core and what that means. As an Open Source company do you have an open version of your product that’s crippled? Or do you an open version of your product that is truly useful? This was the crux of the questions I asked all the Sonatype CEO candidates, and this turned out to be the reason it took me almost 8 months interviewing 17 candidates to ferret out the right person. It was a grueling process finding Mark de Visser but I was adamant and our VCs, Hummer Winblad & Morgenthaler, were very patient and let me take my time to find the exact right match. I got pretty ornery at one point &emdash; I thought I would never find the right person in Silly Valley. (more…)
Sonatype's Hudson Plans for Maven Integration
I want to share with you what Sonatype is planning to do with Hudson – I hope you will be interested. We are planning a lot of work on the OSS side and will contribute that all back (provided the license of Hudson does not change to the CDDL). We are also planning to work on a commercially supported version of Hudson and we will create some additional commercial plugins. I think people here will be most interested in the OSS work so I’ll start there.
It all starts with the work we’ve done with Tom Huybrechts over the last few months to embed Plexus inside Hudson. This has several implications, especially for those who are interested in Maven integration. Tom made the PluginManager itself pluggable and the Plexus version of the PluginManager that was created finds Plexus components in its standard way. As a result plugins now work the same way in Hudson, Maven and Nexus.
Bechtolsheim's lesson
Bechtolsheim helped turn Sun, Granite, Google, VMWare and now Arista into some of the most successful startups ever. You could pick worse role models than Andreas von Bechtolsheim, when it comes to starting a company.
Creating the Sonatype product roadmap
I joined Sonatype on October 1st. I have found an enormous pool of talent, technology assets and – importantly – customer interest. Exciting stuff – nothing of what Sonatype delivers is a luxury item, it should play out well regardless of the economic climate in the months and years to come.
What is needed now is a public product roadmap and the ability of expressing and interpreting feedback. We’ll focus on that in the coming week.
The Register Covers Sonatype's Quest to Conquer the IDE
In Maven and Eclipse strive for Visual Studio ‘power’, Gavin Clarke of The Register covers Sonatype’s bold moves to redefine excellence in the Java IDE market.
“A Maven plug-in for Eclipse called M2Eclipse is due in the next eight weeks. This will integrate the two environments, providing automatic mapping of assets from build to release, eliminating the potential for bugs to creep in to the handover between teams. Integration is currently tricky and done by hand. M2Eclipse will map repositories, project metadata, dependencies and configuration information of software built in Eclipse to the Maven project object model. Those building inside Eclipse will also be able to search projects and find plug-ins held in the Maven Central Repository. Maven [Central Repository] creator Jason van Zyl told El Reg the duo are striving to create a development environment as powerful as Visual Studio – only for Java.”
Read more of this article on The Register
- For more information about m2eclipse, see the m2eclipse site
