Vista Acquires a Majority Interest in Sonatype: A Great Day for our Customers, Partners and Community
The Sonatype journey started more than a decade ago, just as the concept of “open source” and componentized software development was gaining steam. From our humble beginning as core contributors to Apache Maven, to supporting Maven Central and serving billions of components annually to developers, to building the world’s deepest knowledge base of open source health and hygiene data, to helping thousands of enterprise engineering teams automatically find and fix open source vulnerabilities, we’ve pioneered the best practice of software supply chain management and reinvented how organizations use open source to build applications.
Today, we’re excited to announce that Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”) is acquiring a majority interest in Sonatype — which means that our journey will continue alongside a powerful new strategic partner.
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Why Vista?
With more than 70,000 employees building and delivering software every single day across 60 portfolio companies, Vista is literally living in the shoes of software developers, application security folks, and ops managers. They know first-hand the intense pressure felt by engineering teams everywhere to accelerate the pace of software innovation. They also know that every organization building software today is consuming massive amounts of open source, and must contend with the challenge that not all of these third-party components are high quality or trustworthy, and all of them age like milk, not like wine.
At Sonatype, our vision, strategy, and execution have long been focused on helping software engineering teams scale DevOps by automatically harnessing all of the good that open source has to offer, while minimizing the inherent risks. Vista, perhaps more than anyone else in the world, understands our vision and appreciates the strategic importance of our mission. For this reason, they are the perfect organization for us to partner with as we continue to grow and scale.
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*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Sonatype Blog authored by Wayne Jackson and Brian Fox. Read the original post at: https://blog.sonatype.com/vista-acquires-a-majority-interest-in-sonatype
