History
JUDE development was originally started by Kenji Hiranabe, CEO of Change Vision, Inc, in 1996, around the time that UML, Java and some design patterns began appearing. He sensed that a radical UML tool for Object-Oriented Development was going to be in demand in the future and this idea spurred him to start creating JUDE. He gathered volunteer engineers in Eiwa System Management Inc, for whom he was working at the time; and they developed it in their free time as a non money making venture and JUDE was originally named JOMT.
JUDE started to be provided as a free software in 1999. Then 5 years later was reached the decision to start selling JUDE in the Japanese market. This decision came from 1) the background that there were some UML modeling tools in overseas but they were a bit high price and, 2) the idea that the company would get more feedbacks from Japanese users and could evolve JUDE more based on them if JUDE was released on the market.
The number of JUDE users was 120,000 as of October 30, 2006. On September 2009, JUDE was renamed to astah* after receiving concerns from German users who pointed out the product name similarity with the German word Jude, which refers to a male Jew.
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