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SonarSource

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SonarSource
IndustryOpensource Software
Founded2008[1]
Founder
  • Olivier Gaudin
  • Freddy Mallet
  • Simon Brandhof
Headquarters
Geneva
,
Switzerland
Area served
Worldwide
Products
WebsiteOfficial website

SonarSource is a Swiss company founded in 2008. It develops open source software for continuous code quality and security.

Overview

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SonarSource is a company that develops open source software for continuous code quality and security. Founded by Olivier Gaudin, Freddy Mallet, and Simon Brandhof in 2008, SonarSource is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

In 2017, they had more than 6,000 customers, including eBay, Bank of America, BMW.[8]

As of 2022, SonarSource has more than 7 million users, 21,000 enterprise customers, and they now support more than 400,000 organizations.[9]

Products

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SonarSource provides code quality and security products to detect maintainability, reliability and vulnerability issues on 27 programming languages including Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, C/C++, COBOL.[10][11] The company offers three products: SonarQube, SonarCloud, and SonarLint.

  • SonarQube is an open core product for static code analysis, with additional features offered in commercial editions.
  • SonarCloud offers free analysis of open source projects.
  • SonarLint is a free IDE extension for static analysis.

Financial backing

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In 2016, the company raised US$45 million of funding from Insight Venture Partners, a US investment firm.[8][6][7][12] In 2022, SonarSource received with CHF 394.6 million the second largest venture capital financing round of Switzerland of that year.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Swiss Venture Capital Report 2023" (PDF). startupticker.ch. JNB Journalistenbüro. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  2. ^ "Compuware and SonarSource Add COBOL Testing to DevOps". Database Trends and Applications. 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  3. ^ Mens, Tom; Serebrenik, Alexander; Cleve, Anthony (2014-01-08). Evolving Software Systems. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 92. ISBN 9783642453984.
  4. ^ "Compuware e Sonarsource, insieme per promuovere l'agilità digitale delle aziende | ZeroUno". ZeroUno (in Italian). 2018-01-18. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  5. ^ Hüttermann, Michael (2012-09-12). DevOps for Developers. Apress. p. 54. ISBN 9781430245698.
  6. ^ a b "Une entreprise genevoise lève 45 millions de dollars" (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  7. ^ a b "La société genevoise SonarSource lève 45 millions de dollars". www.ictjournal.ch (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  8. ^ a b c "Qui est l'éditeur genevois SonarSource qui a levé 45 millions?". www.ictjournal.ch (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  9. ^ "the home of clean code". www.sonarsource.com. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  10. ^ "Sonar Quality Dashboard 3.0: New Commercial Editions And The Developer's Cockpit". InfoQ. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  11. ^ Arapidis, Charalampos (2012-08-24). Sonar Code Quality Testing Essentials. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781849517874.
  12. ^ "Term Sheet -- Wednesday, November 30". Fortune. Retrieved 2018-02-08.