Gentleware
Encyclopedia
Gentleware AG is a software company headquartered in Hamburg
, Germany
. Gentleware was founded in 2000 with software based in the open source
project ArgoUML
. The company is best known for Poseidon for UML
, the world's most downloaded commercial UML tool
, with over 1,200,000 copies distributed to over 100 countries.
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. Gentleware was founded in 2000 with software based in the open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
project ArgoUML
ArgoUML
ArgoUML is an UML diagramming application written in Java and released under the open source Eclipse Public License. By virtue of being a Java application, it is available on any platform supported by Java....
. The company is best known for Poseidon for UML
Poseidon for UML
Poseidon for UML is a software application used to create models with the Unified Modeling Language. It originated from the ArgoUML project, but massive changes were necessary in order to make ArgoUML into a commercial project; as a result the two efforts are very divergent....
, the world's most downloaded commercial UML tool
UML tool
A UML tool or UML modeling tool is a software application that supports some or all of the notation and semantics associated with the Unified Modeling Language , which is the industry standard general purpose modeling language for software engineering.UML tool is used broadly here to include...
, with over 1,200,000 copies distributed to over 100 countries.