My friend Jason Van Zyl has started Sonatype, a new company focused on Maven for the Enterprise and providing support, training and consulting for Maven. He's been joined by several talented Maven committers (John Casey, Kenney Westerhof, Andrew Williams, Eric Redmond and Eirik Bjørsnøs) which make their team one of the most knowledgable team on the Maven topic on the planet. Knowing Jason's generosity and dedication to Maven you can be sure that this is the best possible move for the Maven project and it's great for the Maven ecosystem at large. As a proof, Sonatype has already delivered a great (and free) Maven book.

I'm also happy to report that XWiki (the company and open source project I work for) is a Sonatype Partner. I'd love to see Maven products built on top of XWiki. I think XWiki's flexibility makes it an ideal platform for building those products and at the same time empowering them with collaborative features. In the near future I'll work closely with Jason and his team to integrate XWiki and Maven and hopefully we'll see some cool things out of this.

Well done guys and long live Sonatype!