Black Duck Software
See the following -
Black Duck Software CEO Tim Yeaton Rejoins Red Hat To Lead Newly-Formed Infrastructure Group
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Tim Yeaton, former chief executive officer of Black Duck Software and a onetime Red Hat executive, has rejoined Red Hat in the newly-created position of senior vice president, Infrastructure Group. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Black Duck Software Named To SD Times 100 For Sixth Consecutive Year
Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of strategy, products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, today announced it has been named to the SD Times 100 for the sixth consecutive year. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Black Duck Software On IPO Path, Though Possible Acquirers Abound
Burlington-based open-source software specialist Black Duck Software is "one or two years behind" recently public Rally Software, both in terms of revenue growth and IPO plans, Black Duck CEO Tim Yeaton said in an interview. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Black Duck Unlocks $59B Opportunity For Enterprises Using Open Source
As enterprises increase their utilization of open source software (OSS) to accelerate development innovation and drive down costs, the importance of having up-front visibility into OSS licenses and their associated obligations takes on even greater importance. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Collabnet's New TeamForge Delivers Integration, Visibility and Reporting for ALM and Enterprise Cloud Development
Collabnet's New TeamForge Delivers Integration, Visibility and Reporting for ALM and Enterprise Cloud Development
- Login to post comments
Do We Still Need The FSF, GNU and GPL?
It's easy to take things for granted – to assume that the world will always be as it is. And then sometimes you receive a mild jolt: some new information appears that makes you sit up and reconsider your preconceptions. Here's one jolt I received recently: Read More »
- Login to post comments
Don't Believe the Hype, AGPL Open Source Licensing Is Toxic and Unpopular
Reading Black Duck Software's newest paean to the Affero General Public License (AGPL) ("The Quietly Accelerating Adoption of the AGPL"), one could be forgiven for thinking AGPL is rocking the open source licensing planet. After all, Black Duck executive Phil Odence laced his post with fancy charts showing explosive growth of the license, ultimately declaring the AGPL "very popular," and a license his firm sees frequently in audits. Maybe, maybe not...
- Login to post comments
Forrester: open source project explosion driving a "golden era" in app development
The explosion in open source projects in the HTML, mobile, cloud and big data spaces such as Android, jQuery, PhoneGap, Sencha, Hadoop and Cordova are driving a new model and a golden age of "app" development, Forrester Research says. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Giant Robots and Open Source
Do you use Open Source Software (OSS)? If you do you are probably aware of the various types of OSS licenses and terms in those licenses that your organization needs to be able to square away with organizational policies and industry regulations. But which OSS packages do you use? Read More »
- Login to post comments
GitHub Improves Open-Source Licensing Polices
GitHub, the popular open-source development community site, is finally getting its licensing act together. It's high time since Black Duck has found that 77-percent of GitHub projects have no declared open-source license. Read More »
- Login to post comments
GitHub's Wild West Approach To Licensing Has Hidden Costs
The GitHub generation doesn't seem to like the bother of licenses, but is it prepared to stomach the costs? Read More »
- Login to post comments
GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Faster Than Ever
A new analysis of licensing data shows that not only is use of the GPL and other copyleft licenses continuing to decline, but the rate of disuse is actually accelerating. That was the conclusion of Matthew Aslett's analysis of recent data from Black Duck Software, which shows that while use of the GPL, LGPL, and AGPL set of copyleft licenses dominates free and open source projects, that us Read More »
- Login to post comments
How Samsung Is Bringing Open Source Culture Inside The Firewall
Software companies have long realized the economic and strategic value of using and contributing code to external open source projects. But they're much slower to understand and apply the same open source methods of collaboration to their own projects internally, said Phil Odence, vice president of business development at Black Duck Software in a Collaboration Summit presentation today.
- Login to post comments
JFrog And Black Duck Software Partner, Announce Integration Of Artifactory Pro And Black Duck Suite
Black Duck Software, the trusted partner for open source software adoption, management and governance, and JFrog, creator of the Artifactory Repository Management Solution, today announced a partnership under which JFrog Artifactory Pro is integrated with Black Duck Suite, providing unprecedented levels of control, efficiency and visibility throughout the development lifecycle when using open source components. Read More »
- Login to post comments
North Bridge Invites Open Source Community to Discuss Key Findings from 2014 Future of Open Source Study
North Bridge Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm, together with Black Duck Software, the trusted partner for open source software adoption, management and governance, will unveil the findings of the eighth annual Future of Open Source survey during a webinar, “2014 Future of Open Source Survey Results Revealed,” scheduled for Thursday, April 3rd, at 2 p.m. ET. Read More »
- Login to post comments