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PrintCompany name: Vyatta
Founded: 2005
Location: Belmont, Calif.
What does the company offer? The first commercially supported open source router/firewall/VPN solution, which appeared in 2006.
Why is it worth watching? The company is combining x86-based processors and multicore technologies with open source code and communities. Vyatta's routing and security appliances scale from branch-office to service-provider installations.
How did the company get its start? Vyatta was founded by Allen Leinwand, venture partner at Panorama Capital and an early Cisco employee, who took his cue from an open source router project out of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley.
How did the company get its name? The word "vyatta" is ancient Sanskrit and means open.
CEO and background: Before joining Vyatta, Kelly Herrell was the senior vice president of strategic operations at MontaVista Software. Previously, he was vice president of marketing for Cobalt Networks, a provider of open source-based server appliances for Web hosting. He also worked at CacheFlow, Oracle, NCR, Teradata and AT&T. He has a bachelor's degree in marketing from Washington State University, and an MBA from Cornell University.
Funding: Vyatta completed Series B funding in April 2007, to bring its total venture capital funding to $18.5 million. Investors include Panorama Capital, Comcast Interactive Capital, ComVentures and ArrowPath Venture Partners.
Who's using the product? Vyatta's Community Edition software has been downloaded more than 200,000 times by organizations in aerospace and defense, education, financial services, government, and technology. Corporate customers include enterprise, service provider and governments.
Company name: Sonatype
Founded: 2007
Location: Palo Alto, Calif.
What does the company offer? Software, support and services centered on making it easier to use Maven, a software tool for Java project management and build automation.
Why is it worth watching? Sonatype wants to give Java developers an environment that rivals Microsoft's Visual Studio and .Net. Maven has been downloaded more than two million times, and Sonatype adds to the mix its Nexus repository manager and m2eclipse plug-in, which ties it to the Eclipse IDE.
How did the company get its start? Sonatype saw a gap and filled it after recognizing Maven's widespread adoption highlighted the need for stout development infrastructure tools along with Maven support and services.
How did the company get its name? Sonatype takes its name from the Hindi word "sona," which means gold, and the Latin word "type," which means model.
CEO and background: Jason van Zyl is also founder and CTO. He has more than 10 years' experience in open source and proprietary enterprise software development. He is the founder of the Apache Maven project. Prior to Sonatype, he founded Periapt, which provides software infrastructure development services to Fortune 500 companies. He has also worked as a technology architect at Compusens. He helped found Codehaus, an incubation facility for open source community projects.
Funding: Privately funded.
Who's using the product? Sonatype's tools and services have been downloaded more than two million times by a wide range of companies and organizations that include many members of the Fortune 2000.
