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OpenMake Wants to Be Known as the Build Meister


Company changes name, shifts focus to developers with new release of build solutions

By Jeff Feinman
March 1, 2007 — 
Not many companies change their name as often as this year’s Super Bowl half-time performer Prince, who has appeared under such different guises as “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince” and an unpronounceable symbol. But it’s not at all unusual for a company to rename itself after the flagship product, which is what happened in February when Catalyst Systems re-entered the build management market as OpenMake Software.

The renaming announcement came not with electric guitars or flashing lights, but with a timeline for updates to the company’s tools: Mojo 7.0, a free build process management tool, is slated for general availability on March 5; and Meister 7.0, the company’s larger, long-term build solution that replaces OpenMake 6.41.1, is set for an April 1 release.

Tracy Ragan, COO of OpenMake, said the product line until now “catered substantially to the configuration management administrator. What Meister is going to do, is hand off some of that control back to the developers. The new product will be built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform, so the whole user interface will be more developer-centric than it has been in the past.”

NEW...AND NOT SO NEW
The most important feature of Meister 7.0, Ragan said, is the new Eclipse RCP front end, which has a more “standardized” look-and-feel for developers. As a result, the ability to manage or customize build services will be simplified, she said. Meister will retain many features from previous OpenMake releases, including minimized script redundancy and automatic code refactoring.

Meanwhile, Mojo 7.0, will be available through the company’s Web site (www.openmake.com). The offering gives developers ad hoc script management, build metrics, and shared build and release process management. It is aimed toward smaller developers, who can eventually upgrade to Meister 7.0 or Meister for Java, which provides knowledge base services for building Java JAR files.

Ragan confirmed that the company changed its name from Catalyst to OpenMake because the product had such strong brand recognition among customers.

Stephen King—no relation to the author—the new CEO of OpenMake, said the company’s upcoming product releases offer a tremendous growth opportunity. “Our product is sold by companies like Serena Software, Borland and MKS, and we need to address the rest of the market by putting out our own sales force,” he said. “Offering a free version of the product will go a long way toward building our user base.”


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