JetBrains
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JetBrains (formerly IntelliJ) is a software development company whose tools are targeted towards software developers and project managers.<ref name="eweekyt">*****o</ref><ref name="infoQ'10" />
Template:As of, the company has over 500<ref name="Team">Template:Cite web</ref> employees in its five offices:<ref name="AboutCompany">Template:Cite web</ref> in Prague, Saint Petersburg,<ref name="adtKotlin">*****o</ref> Moscow, Munich, and Boston.<ref name="Crunchbase">Template:Cite web</ref>
History
JetBrains, initially called IntelliJ,<ref name="jolt12">Template:Cite web</ref> was founded in 2000 in Prague by three software developers:<ref name="oracle">*****o</ref> Sergey Dmitriev, Valentin Kipiatkov and Eugene Belyaev.<ref name="javaposse">*****o</ref>
The company's first product was IntelliJ Renamer, a tool for refactoring Java code.<ref name="infoQ'10">*****o</ref>
In 2012, after having been the company's CEO for 12 years, Sergey Dmitriev entrusted the company to two newly appointed CEOs, Oleg Stepanov and Maxim Shafirov, and devoted himself to his scientific endeavors in the field of bioinformatics.<ref name="vedomosti">*****o</ref><ref name="cnews">*****o</ref>
Products
The company offers an extended family of IDEs for Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, Objective-C, C++, and JavaScript programming languages.<ref name="infoq">*****o</ref>
JetBrains are also the makers of tools for .NET developers, including ReSharper, dotTrace, dotMemory, dotCover and dotPeek, plus team development tools: TeamCity for continuous integration and build management, YouTrack for issue tracking and Upsource for code review.<ref name="eweek">*****o</ref><ref name="infoqHadi">*****o</ref>
In 2011 the company entered a new area by introducing Kotlin, a new JVM programming language.<ref name="infoq">*****o</ref>
CLion
CLion (pronounced "sea lion") is a cross-platform C/C++ IDE for Linux, OS X, and Windows integrated with the CMake build system.<ref name="drdobbs20140913">*****o</ref><ref name="infoq201409">*****o</ref> The initial version will support the GCC and Clang compilers and GDB debugger, with JetBrains hoping to support LLDB and Google Test in the future.<ref name="infoworld20140914">*****o</ref> The Forrester analyst Michael Facemire expressed doubts about the product's potential.<ref name="infoworld20140914"/>
Revenue model
JetBrains IDEs have several license options, which feature same software functionality and differ in their price and terms of use. The team products are available as hosted and installed versions and have free versions for small teams.<ref name="h-online">*****o</ref><ref name="bsmyt">*****o</ref> All products are free for open source projects and educational institutions.<ref name="sdtimes">*****o</ref>
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate is one of the only paid products in a field of free or open source options.<ref name="infoworld2011">*****o</ref><ref name="computerwoche">*****o</ref><ref name="adtmag">*****o</ref>
Open source projects
In 2009, JetBrains open-sourced the core functionality of IntelliJ IDEA by offering the free Community Edition.<ref name="sdtimes" /><ref>*****o</ref> It is built on the IntelliJ Platform and includes its sources. JetBrains has applied the Apache 2.0 license to both of them.<ref name="infoworldIJ">*****o</ref> In 2010, Android support became a part of the Community Edition,<ref name="androidpolice">*****o</ref> and two years later Google announced<ref name="theregister">*****o</ref> its Android Studio, the IDE for mobile development on Android platform built on the Community Edition of IntelliJ IDEA and an official alternative to Eclipse Android Developer Tool.<ref name="infoworldandroid">*****o</ref> In June 2015, it was announced that the support of Eclipse ADT will be discontinued making the Android Studio the official tool for Android App development.<ref name="android-developers.blogspot">*****o</ref>
MPS, short for Meta Programming System, and Project Kotlin, a statically typed programming language for JVM, are both open source and non-commercial.<ref name="infoqkotlinopensourced">*****o</ref><ref name="heiseDeveloper">*****o</ref>
Past projects
Fabrique, a RAD framework for building custom Web and enterprise applications.<ref name="fabrique">*****o</ref> Introduced in 2004,<ref name="fabrique" /> apparently dead since 2008.
Omea, a desktop-based reader and organizer for RSS (and later of every bit of information that comes across one’s desktop),<ref name="freewaregenious" /> the first<ref name="infoweekomea">*****o</ref> and so far the only consumer-oriented product from JetBrains. Introduced in 2004, it failed to gain expected popularity.<ref name="freewaregenious" /> In 2008, having reached v 2.2, Omea was open-sourced under the GPL v2 license.<ref name="itwriting">Template:Cite web</ref> The product is still available for download, and after the "retirement"<ref name="GuardianGReader">*****o</ref> of Google Reader, has gained some attention again.<ref name="freewaregenious">*****o</ref><ref name="technolect">*****o</ref>
Astella, an IDE for Flash and Flex. This most short-lived JetBrains product was announced in October 2011,<ref>*****o</ref> just a month before Adobe killed Mobile Flash.<ref name="GuardianFlash">*****o</ref>
Awards and recognition
InfoWorld magazine awarded the company "Technology of the Year Award" in 2015 and 2011.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="infoworld2011"/>
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