We humbly declare today, February 3rd, World Open Source day.
Why? The roots of Sonatype lie firmly in open source, originally founded to help other companies adopt a new technology – Apache Maven. From a single server under the desk and a whiteboard, Maven has grown into a technology used every day by over 15 million developers and its’ central dependency ecosystem, The Central Repository, sees over 425 Billion downloads annually. Similarly we as a company have mirrored this growth and matured into a $100M ARR Unicorn – with a platform that helps customers adopt open source efficiently across dozens of languages.
Open source is the secret sauce that powers technology as we know it today. Without it, the internet would not run, Teslas would not start, and no information systems would boot up. Every company in the world has, knowingly or not, become adopters of it. Accordingly, building the muscle of being good at adopting, managing and removing open source packages helps companies take the next step in productivity, security and DevOps adoption. Our aim has always been to help developers do the right thing without discouraging them from embracing open source technology by means of arbitrary inspection or poor process.
As we set our sights on our future growth, it’s important we acknowledge the deep roots in open source that brought us here. By recognizing February 3rd as World Open source day, we want to help everyone give back to the other teams that gave the world so much from their offices and whiteboards, and to help give that little boost to a small project that might end up changing the world all over again in 10 years time.
What We’re Doing
We’re celebrating February 3rd, the day the term ‘Open Source’ was first coined, (Read more...)