Great name, congrats! On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 09:47, Hans Dockter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > In the middle of 2009 we have founded a company behind Gradle. It provides > training, support and consulting for Gradle and all forms of enterprise > software project automation in general. We gave it the name Gradle Inc. with > the domain name gradle.biz. Obviously we were never happy with the domain > name. One solution to that problem was to look for a new name for the > company. This is the road we have taken. We renamed Gradle Inc. to > Gradleware Inc.. With the new name we don't need to explicitly mention the > Inc. anymore. The new name still shows that there is a strong link between > the company and the open source technology. The new name has the additional > advantage that it is easier now to distinguish activity of the commercial > entity from community activity around the open source project. This is just > a name change! It will be followed by a complete restructuring of the > gradleware.com website. > > We have also renamed our twitter account. The original name was @GradleOrg > as @Gradle was taken. We renamed the account to @Gradleware. This reflects > the fact that people from Gradleware provide the tweets for this channel. > And, of course, it gives more visibility to the commercial entity :). > > Besides that we are all very excited that two fantastic people have joined > Gradleware. We will announce the details of that soon. > > Hans > > -- > Hans Dockter > Founder, Gradle > http://www.gradle.org, http://twitter.com/gradleware > CEO, Gradle Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting > http://www.gradleware.com > > > -- Best Regards, Baruch
