DEVOPSdigest

Sonar signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tidelift, a provider of software supply chain security solutions that help organizations manage the risk of open source software.

The acquisition will extend Sonar’s scope of coverage to include open source libraries, in addition to code written by developers and AI – improving the state of open source software and raising the bar for code quality and security everywhere.

Tidelift helps improve the health and security of open source by paying the maintainers behind thousands of the world’s most-relied-upon open source projects to follow secure software development practices. Paid open source maintainers are 55% more likely to implement critical security and maintenance practices than unpaid maintainers.

“Tidelift and Sonar are naturally aligned through a common vision – improve code everywhere and supercharge the developer experience. We have been impressed with Tidelift’s approach to improving open source software and look forward to welcoming the team to Sonar,” said Tariq Shaukat, CEO of Sonar. “Tidelift provides insight into many factors that could adversely impact applications relying on open source, so that developers can remediate issues proactively at the point they are introduced.”

For organizations that write code and build software, Sonar improves developer productivity and accelerates software development by improving the developer experience with actionable insights, high-fidelity issue alerts, and assistance with remediation along the development workflow. By orchestrating the coding lifecycle from code to commit to refactor, with the developer experience at the center, Sonar maximizes developers' potential to deliver excellent, secure code fast.

“Against a backdrop of high-profile security issues impacting open source, like the Log4Shell and XZ Utils vulnerabilities, technology leaders have a strategic imperative to ensure that the open source code they incorporate into their applications meets enterprise-grade quality and security standards,” said Donald Fischer, CEO and co-founder of Tidelift. “By combining Tidelift and Sonar’s unique capabilities, organizations will have a complete solution for managing code quality and security across internally developed, AI-generated, and now open source code.”

The Tidelift offering will continue to be available – there are no immediate planned changes to the current Tidelift product. Tidelift customers and maintainer partners will not experience any disruption to their current experiences.

Additional details will be provided in Q1 2025.