When Greg Wilkins built the first version of Jetty in 1995, it was an issue-tracking system entered into a Sun Microsystems competition. It won. The Servlet API arrived soon after, and Jetty grew into the HTTP server and servlet engine still in use today.
Greg ran Mort Bay Consulting for years before founding Webtide, LLC in 2006 to put a US-based company behind the project and bring on more developers. After a brief stint under outside ownership, the team bought itself back in 2015 and has been 100% developer-owned and operated ever since.
For nearly twenty years, Webtide has fully funded the ongoing development of Jetty and CometD through services and support — no licensing games, no proprietary forks. Our customers consume Jetty directly from open source under standard licenses; what they pay Webtide for is access to the people who write it.
That structure is the entire model. The developers of Jetty and CometD work for Webtide. When you call us, you’re calling them.