Monthly Archives: September 2011

New Webinar: Open Source Goodness minus Potential Risks = Insight

September 26, 2011 By Emily Blades

Sonatype Insight™ helps development organizations gain better visibility and control over their use of open source components. With Insight, you’ll use open source freely while avoiding quality, security, or licensing issues. Insight was designed with developers in mind — it’s about productivity and quality, not bureaucracy and rework.

Attend our webinar on Thursday, October 6th at 10:30AM EDT (GMT-0400) to see how Insight:

Helps you manage component quality, security, and licensing
Integrates with your tools and processes
Monitors your applications so you’ll know when a new defect is discovered

Take 30 minutes and learn how you can build better software faster while avoiding unnecessary risks.

Register Now

All registrants will receive access to the recording after the event so if something comes up and you can’t make it, you won’t be missing out.

The Next Step in Transforming Software Development

September 19, 2011 By Wayne Jackson

Today we announced Sonatype Insight™, a new product line designed to help application development organizations gain better visibility and control over their use of open source components.

This is an exciting step in the evolution of Sonatype.

From our early beginnings with the Apache Maven project, to our leadership on such key projects as Nexus, m2eclipse, Hudson, p2 and Tycho, and through our stewardship of the Central Repository, we’ve always been committed to transforming software development through the use of open source.

What’s next? How do we ensure the continued successful adoption and growth of open source in software development? How do we help balance the beneficial economics, efficiency, and quality of open source with legitimate management concerns about quality, security, and licensing?

This challenge led us to build Insight. Insight lets developers leverage open source freely while reducing unnecessary risks. It provides visibility and control without bureaucracy. It enables governance without burden. In short, it’s a product suite that we, as developers, would be pleased to have in our environment.

Feedback from our pre-release customers has been very positive. They see what we see – organizations need actionable information without disrupting their development processes. They want to use more open source, but must avoid quality, security, and licensing risks. They need productivity, not bureaucracy, manual research, and rework.

We’re excited about Insight and about our continued commitment to open source. I’d encourage you to learn more at www.sonatype.com/insight or to contact me at wayne@sonatype.com if you have questions.

FINAL WEEK of Limited Time Nexus Offer

September 13, 2011 By jduggan

Make the switch from Nexus Open Source to Sonatype Pro for Nexus and you’ll receive:

5% off 10 seat pack: $855 (savings: $45)
10% off 50 seat pack: $3,645 (savings: $405)
15% off 100 seat pack : $6205.50 (savings: $1,444.50)

Why Go Pro?

Get Sonatype Support at a fraction of the cost and take advantage of Pro only features.

Direct access to engineers who designed and built Nexus
Easy incident reporting via e-mail, phone, or the web
Reduce risk with control over open source component procurement
Improve quality using build promotion and staging
And more advanced features

JBoss Moves to Central

September 7, 2011 By Terry Bernstein

Sonatype is excited to announce that we’ve teamed up with Red Hat to add the popular JBoss Community project components to the Central Repository.

Many JBoss projects, including JGroups, Javaassist, Netty, Hibernate, HornetQ, RestEasy, jBPM and Drools are now included in the Central Repository with more expected to be added in coming months. You’ll be able to easily locate and use these projects in a single, standard location.

The Sonatype team worked closely with JBoss Community project teams to evaluate legacy repositories, cleanup metadata and coalesce disparate content into a single site. Providing transparent, streamlined access to important project artifacts in the Central Repository further accelerates the development process and enables the JBoss Community to more rapidly provide its open source technologies to users.

The Central Repository is the industry-leading source for open source Java components used by over 40,000 development organizations daily. Sonatype has been working to expand the number of components available in Central. By adding the JBoss projects and the Java.net projects announced last month, we expect the Central Repository to offer you access to more than 90 percent of all open source Java projects by the end of this year.

New virtual Nexus training class available

By Emily Blades

We’ve had many requests for a Nexus class and are pleased to announce that we have added Nexus Best Practices to our Sonatype Virtual Training lineup.

Nexus Best Practices will give you the knowledge and practical instruction to get the most from your Nexus repository. Take this class to get up to speed quickly, gain better control over your component usage, and see faster build times.

This virtual class is ideal for individuals and teams who are looking to get up to speed with Nexus quickly. It is also appropriate for existing Nexus users who are interested in gaining a greater understanding of the fundamentals, as well as advanced techniques and tips and tricks.

After this course, you will:

Understand all of the benefits of using a repository manager
Be proficient with installation and maintenance of your Nexus instance
Use the Nexus user interface effectively as both a user and an administrator
Support Nexus as a key component of your enterprise development infrastructure
Gain control over the artifacts that can be proxied from external Maven repositories
Understand how to use Nexus to support staged releases

Our first class is scheduled for Thursday, October 20 from 11:00AM-5PM EDT (GMT-0400).

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