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I am very excited to announce the release of FishEye 2 and Crucible 2. Both of these products have undergone a complete UI makeover with improved usability and productivity features focused on agile development. FishEye and Crucible help you explore your source code and conduct code reviews that actually work.
After announcing the betas of both products at Atlassian Summit about a month ago, we had several hundred people download and try it, many of which provided us with valuable feedback. Check out the new features below and download the latest version to upgrade or try a free 30-day evaluation.
FishEye 2: Explore your sourceRegister for a session now by clicking a time below:
Wed, July 15, 2009 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
Wed, July 15, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST
Black Duck Software Analysis shows other license options gaining ground
WALTHAM, Mass., June 30, 2009, Open source license adoption trends indicate a new pragmatism in the open source community, as evidenced by increasing diversity in license types being chosen for open source projects. Most notable was the increasing adoption of the GPLv3 license coupled with an overall five percent drop in the number of projects adopting the GPL license generally. The analysis was conducted by Black Duck Software, a leading provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software (OSS).
GPL licenses, sometimes referred to as reciprocal licenses, are used in more than 65 percent of open source projects evaluated by Black Duck. Growth in the use of the GPLv3 license increased at a 4X rate year-over-year, with 9,500 GPLv3 licenses in use in 2009, compared to 2,345 in 2008.
Despite strong growth in GPLv3 adoption, the percentage of projects using GPL variants dropped from 70 to 65 percent, demonstrating that open source software licensing is becoming more diverse, reflecting renewed pragmatism on the part of open source developers and consumers. A recent indication of this shift is the growth of the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL), an OSI-approved license, which is now the tenth most popular license in the Black Duck Software Knowledge Base.
The GPLv3 license this year moved past the Mozilla, MIT and Apache licenses to the number five spot behind BSD. Black Duck estimates that the current rate of adoption will see GPLv3 pass BSD in about six months. Many large projects, including Linux, JBoss and Hibernate, have chosen to remain with GPLv2.
“With more than 1,500 different open source licenses in use, it is possible for software developers to choose a license that closely reflects their intentions for the use of their software,” observed Peter Vescuso, executive vice president of marketing and business development, Black Duck Software. “Many developers are selecting licenses that are less restrictive, a move that underscores the broader adoption and value of open source in today’s multi-source development environments.”
The top 10 open source licenses in use are:
License Percentage RankAn additional trend in the growth of open source confirms how licenses are being employed to support revenue-based business models. From straight open-source licensing to dual licensing, more businesses are moving to ”open-core” licensing approaches. Matt Aslett, Enterprise Software Analyst for The 451 Group, says, “Open-Core Licensing – offering proprietary commercial extensions around an open source core – has become a popular strategy for generating revenue from an installed base of open source users.” Examples of projects embracing this approach include MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Continuent.
Black Duck spiders the Internet collecting open source and other downloadable code into a repository called the Black Duck KnowledgeBase, a database of more than 200,000 open source projects with tens of billions of lines of code from over 4,100 unique Internet sites. Daily updates of license statistics can be found at http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss
To listen to a podcast discussion of open source licensing trends with Tim Yeaton, CEO of Black Duck software, visit http://ducks.blackducksoftware.com/~webmedia/_Podcasts/BDS_Tim_Yeaton_6_29_09.mp3
About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development and maintenance costs while mitigating the risks and challenges associated with open source reuse, including hidden license obligations, security vulnerabilities, unsupported open source and version proliferation. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam and Hong Kong, as well as distribution partners throughout the world. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.
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Mono 2.4.2 has been released, this is a maintenance release for Mono 2.4 and contains over 150 bug fixes. It can be downloaded from our downloads page.
This version is the first version to integrate Microsoft's open source ASP.NET MVC stack.
Check the release notes for more details.
We created a special piece of collateral to hand out at our booth at last week's Enterprise 2.0 conference. Confluence 3.0 has some great, new social features, but rather than tell the story through a typical sales datasheet, we invented Bill and John, two cartoon characters trying to overcome a few coworker TMI issues — too much information. Fortunately, Confluence-man comes to the rescue.
Let us know what you think! Excelsior!
Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite is the most widely used commercial AJAX toolkit according to a survey on the Ajax development and JS libraries, prepared by Simone Chiarreta, an Italian .NET developer, architect and Microsoft MVP.
The survey was focused on the adoption of the AJAX technology among web developers, as well as the most used toolkits for development of AJAX applications. More than 2500 developers took the survey, and 71.4% of them stated that they are using jQuery, second comes the Ajax Control Toolkit with 58,8%, followed by the core ASP.NET Ajax library, which is used by 44,8%. About 75% of the respondents say that they are using the AJAX technology either in production, development or prototype.
The survey results show that Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX is the most used commercial toolkit for building AJAX applications in the .NET space. 15,6% out of all participants in the survey stated that they prefer developing with RadControls.

A huge congratulations goes out to Walton Smith and team at Booz Allen Hamilton for their winning the Open Enterprise Innovation Award at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this week.
Booz Allen's Hamilton is a 90-year-old consulting firm with over 20K employees. Walton helped create Hello.bah.com, a platform combining 'best of breed enterprise 2.0 tools' including Confluence. It's a great example of a large, mature firm can innovate with new ways to communicate, collaborate and share knowledge.
Stephen Walling at ReadWriteWeb also gives a great summary of Walton's Enterprise 2.0 presentation in Boston on Thursday. If you missed it, Walton also presented hello.bah in our March Voice of the Customer webinar which you can watch on Atlassian.com/tv.