Inedo is a software product company with headquarters in
Berea, Ohio. It that makes Enterprise
DevOps tools, namely BuildMaster, ProGet, and Otter. Inedo also publishes software-related products, including Release! the Game, Programming Languages ABC++, Code Offsets, and
The Daily WTF
The Daily WTF (also called Worse Than Failure from February to December 2007) is a humorous blog dedicated to "Curious Perversions in Information Technology". The blog, run by Alex Papadimoulis, "offers living examples of code that invites the ex ...
.
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
Gartner.
In 2016, Inedo acquired NuGet Server, a small service wrapper for the NuGet.Server
NuGet 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
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
including adding offices in
Tokyo and being the primary organizer and sponsor of DevOps Days Tokyo 2017.
Tools
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BuildMaster –
application release automation tool
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ProGet –
universal package manager
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Otter
Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae. The 13 extant otter species are all semiaquatic, aquatic, or marine, with diets based on fish and invertebrates. Lutrinae is a branch of the Mustelidae family, which also includes wea ...
–
Infrastructure as Code
* Romp -
Command-line 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
Kickstarter
Kickstarter is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of July 2021, ...
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
Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open source software projects. The ASF was formed from a group of developers of the A ...
.
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
* 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
* 10
Alan Turing
* 20
Grace Hopper
* 50
Seymour Cray
* 100
Konrad Zuse
* 500
Edgar Codd
Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd (19 August 1923 – 18 April 2003) was an English computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for relational databases and relational databa ...
* 1000
Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (''née'' Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the A ...
The Daily WTF
Inedo CEO Alex Papadimoulis, is the founder and creator of
The Daily WTF
The Daily WTF (also called Worse Than Failure from February to December 2007) is a humorous blog dedicated to "Curious Perversions in Information Technology". The blog, run by Alex Papadimoulis, "offers living examples of code that invites the ex ...
, 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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Software companies based in Ohio
Software companies established in 2007
Software companies of the United States
2007 establishments in Ohio