Inedo is a software product company with headquarters in

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. It makes Enterprise

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tools, namely BuildMaster, ProGet, and Otter. Inedo also publishes software-related products, including Release! the Game, Programming Languages ABC++, Code Offsets, and

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History

Inedo was founded in 2007 and initially started as a custom software and development training company. In 2010, Inedo officially launched their first software product, BuildMaster. This was followed with the tools ProGet in 2012 and Otter in 2016. In 2015, Inedo was named a “Cool Vendors in DevOps” by

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. In 2016, Inedo acquired NuGet Server, a small service wrapper for the NuGet.Server

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package. In both 2016 and 2017, Inedo was recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation. In 2017 Inedo announced an expansion to

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including adding offices in

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and being the primary organizer and sponsor of DevOps Days Tokyo 2017.

Tools

BuildMaster BuildMaster is an application release automation tool, designed by the software development team Inedo. It combines build management and ARA capabilities to manage and automate processes primarily related to continuous integration, database chang ...

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application release automation Application-release automation (ARA) refers to the process of packaging and deploying an application or update of an application from development, across various environments, and ultimately to production. ARA solutions must combine the capabilit ...

tool * ProGet – universal package manager *

Otter Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae. The 13 extant otter species are all semiaquatic, aquatic, or marine. Lutrinae is a branch of the Mustelidae family, which includes weasels, badgers, mink, and wolverines, among ...

– Infrastructure as Code * Romp -

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platform for creating and deploying Universal packages

Other projects

Release!

In 2014, Inedo published a card game “Release!” marketed as “a light card game about software and the people who make it”. The

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for Release! was supported and fully funded in under a week.

Programming Languages ABC++

The second Inedo Kickstarter project, Programming Languages ABC++, an alphabet book for toddlers and their adult counterparts, was fully funded in 2 days. The project was a joint collaboration with Michael and Martine Dowden, who had the idea and approached Inedo to illustrate and publish it.

Code Offsets

Code Offsets is an initiative by Inedo to “offset” lines of bad code. The proceeds from code offsets go towards various organizations and projects that benefit the development community. The proceeds of the original run of “Bad Code Offsets” were donated to the Open Source Initiative, jQuery, PostgreSQL and the

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. Proceeds from Code Offsets 2016 benefit Tech Corps, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring K-12 students have equal access to technology programs. The denomination and personas featured on the 2016 editions are as follows: * 1

John von Neumann John von Neumann ( ; ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian and American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist and engineer. Von Neumann had perhaps the widest coverage of any mathematician of his time, in ...

* 2

Charles Babbage Charles Babbage (; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Babbage is considered ...

* 5

Herman Hollerith Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in ...

* 10

Alan Turing Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer ...

* 20

Grace Hopper Grace Brewster Hopper (; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of mach ...

* 50

Seymour Cray Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996)
– was an American

Konrad Zuse Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (; ; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, List of pioneers in computer science, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programm ...

* 500 Edgar Codd * 1000

Ada Lovelace Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (''née'' Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-pur ...

The Daily WTF

Inedo CEO Alex Papadimoulis, is the founder and creator of

, a humorous blog dedicated to “Curious Perversion in IT”.Your Daily Cup of WTF
(Alex Papadimoulis' .NET Blog, 17 May 2004)

References

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