Content |
Owners
Chef — one of the world's largest developers of the DevOps-tools used for process automation of software development.
History
2020: Progress Software purchased Chef Software
On September 8, 2020 Progress Software announced acquisition of Chef Software for $220 million that there is twice more amount which the developer of tools attracted to process automation of creation of software for all the history by the time of the announcement of the transaction.
As reported Progress Software, merger of Chef Software will contribute to efforts of the company on "creation, deployment, management and protection of applications in modern multicloud, hybrid and local environments".
 | This purchase will ideally be approved with our growth strategy and meets the requirements which we formulated earlier: strong model of the repeating income, the technologies supplementing our business, base of loyal clients and an opportunity to use our operational model and infrastructure for even more effective conducting activity, – the CEO of Progress Yogesh Gupta whose words are cited in the press release said. |  |
The head of Chef Barry Crist, in turn, connected the better future of the company with Progress Software and noted that views of both companies meet.
The most part software of Chef is available according to licenses Open Source, at the same time the company gains income from expanded corporate versions of products. According to own data, by September, 2020 the vendor has 2500 clients and more than 1.7 million its loadings software every year. Use products of the company Facebook, IBM and SAP and also Nordstrom, Alaska Airlines and Capital One.
In June of the 2020th Chef expanded the product line, having turned on in it the automated security tools for ensuring compliance to requirements and controls of desktop computers.
It is going to close the transaction on sale of Chef of Progress Software company in October, 2020. However at first agreement parties need to get permissions of regulators.[1]
2019: Disclosure of source codes of all programs
At the beginning of April, 2019 Chef announced that source codes of all software products which are developed by the company are uploaded publicly under the license Apache 2. Thus, 100% of software of Chef became belong to the category Open Source.
Prior to the beginning of April, 2019 Chef applied model at which source codes of principal components of proprietary products and also additional tools were open. Most of them are addressed to corporate users and intended for security and software implementation. Now all these tools of which it is the share to a half of code base of the company became open.
| | We leave from our model of an open core. Now we pass to software development only open source — the senior vice president for products and development of Chef Corey Scobie reported the TechCrunch edition. | |
The open model, according to him, concerns also development processes. Further the company is going to disclose more information on "road map", feature set, etc. All commercial products of Chef will be constructed based on the same open source code to which anyone can get access.
Cory Skobi says that on transition to Open Source the company several reasons pushed. One of them consists in the following philosophy of the company: the best method create software is a public cooperation with those who really use this software.
One more reason of Skobi calls that Chef companies become more complex to be explained what parts of programs have an open source code and what — are not present.
| | We wanted to simplify such talk and to be absolutely fair — he told.[2] | |
Notes
| The site content is translated by machine translation software powered by PROMT. The machine-translated articles are not always perfect and may contain errors in vocabulary, syntax or grammar. Read original article If you find inaccuracies or errors in the results of machine translation, please write to editor@tadviser.ru. We will make every effort to correct them as soon as possible. |