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

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Hans Dockter
Founder, Gradle
http://www.gradle.org, http://twitter.com/gradleware
CEO, Gradle Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting
http://www.gradleware.com

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