Jan Aleman and Jan Blok, who met while studying computer science. Application development was hard and they wanted to change that. The cofounders started development in 1997 and recruited a few earlier adopters as clients. Servoy, B.V. was established in 2001 in the Netherlands to commercialize the new product. Two years later, Servoy, Inc. opened in the United States, currently locating in Westlake Village, Los Angeles, California. In 2006, sales started to grow exponentially. Having outgrown its initial 4GL replacement roots, Servoy started to serve ISVs (Independent Software Vendors). It soon became a tool for ISVs to quickly rewrite for the Internet with full Web 2.0 functionality (RIA, AJAX, data broadcasting, etc.) Servoy 4.0 was released during the summer of 2006 with a move from Servoy's proprietary-based IDE to Eclipse. Tech analysts and tech journalists took great interest in the Servoy 4.0 release, resulting in a slew of articles and mentions (see below). Since Servoy 5, the developer and client code has been available under both an AGPL and commercial license. In 2022 Servoy introduced the Titanium edition, a major upgrade from the NG Client. The company hosts an annual developer conference called ServoyWorld, where new versions are introduced, an overview of the current product roadmap is provided, and expert reports about advanced development topics are presented. References External links Servoy Integrated development environments Eclipse (software) Classic Mac OS software MacOS programming tools Programming tools for Windows Software using the GNU AGPL license