Black Duck Announces SAP's Selection of Its Black Duck Suite To Help Developers Manage Increasing use of Open Source Software

Planned worldwide implementation to automate management and use of open source software; validate and improve developer efficiency

WALTHAM, Mass., July 27, 2010 - Black Duck Software, a leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, today announced that SAP (NYSE: SAP) has selected to implement the Black Duck™ Suite. The comprehensive suite provides a platform for managing the use of open source software in a multi-source development process. It will help development teams at SAP improve productivity by further automating the company’s open source approval processes. SAP is the world's leading provider of business software(*).

SAP, which previously used complex, time-consuming and partly manual processes for handling open source approvals and the legal compliance aspects of open source use, sought a scalable, enterprise-strength platform to further automate the management, compliance, and integration of open source software into its development life cycle. After researching available tools and platforms, SAP chose the Black Duck Suite to support SAP developers worldwide with the suite’s automated, developer-oriented, multi-function platform, which supports scanning, early detection and management of open source used in software development.

“When we established the open source approval process at SAP in 2001, we assumed we’d receive only a few open source requests per month,” said Francis Ip, head of SAP Global Technology Legal Compliance. “However, with the continuously increasing importance of open source globally and SAP’s recent strategic change towards systematically utilizing benefits that come with open source, it was necessary for us to scale our open source process through further automation. We conducted an exhaustive search of applications on the market, and the Black Duck Suite was the best solution we tested. The Black Duck Suite will help us further automate and scale our open source process in order to support our open source strategy.”

“Using the Black Duck Suite will help SAP developers reduce the amount of code that needs to be developed while increasing the velocity of development,” said Peter Vescuso, executive vice president, Black Duck Software. “Automating the use and management of open source software also will yield the benefits of compliance with software license obligations, reducing risk and improving developer efficiency.”

For more information on the Black Duck Suite visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

(*) SAP defines business software as comprising enterprise resource planning and related applications.

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. The use of Black Duck™ solutions enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, Calif., London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

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Black Duck Software Maintains Exceptional Growth Pace in Q2

51% climb in bookings year-over-year reflects more rapid, widespread adoption of open source and expanding M&A activity; second-best quarter in company history

WALTHAM, Mass., July 13, 2010—Black Duck Software marked its second-best quarter ever, the company announced today, led by new client bookings, client renewals and growth across all business units, including services - which saw 100 percent year-over-year growth - and reseller partnerships. Second-quarter bookings grew 51 percent compared to the same period in 2009, reflecting increasing interest among enterprise IT managers in the management and control of open source as part of their multi-source development process. Black Duck products and services support the managed use of open source code at enterprise scale.

Large customer renewals included Intel and Cisco. Growth in new customer licenses across the product line was complemented by a 100 percent Q2 ’09 to Q2 ’10 jump in Black Duck’s Professional Services business, which includes IP audits for merger and acquisition engagements.

New clients include Vertex Software, ITA Software (which recently agreed to be acquired by Google) and DataCert.

The exceptionally strong second-quarter performance included new reseller partnerships with Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd. and Fujitsu Middleware Ltd., supporting Black Duck’s international expansion which is designed to improve local presence in growing overseas markets.

Second quarter 2010 milestones included:

• Named a Gartner “Cool Vendor” in Application Development. Black Duck was named in the prestigious “Cool Vendors in Application Development, 2010” report by Gartner, Inc. . The company was recognized for its role in delivering next-generation capabilities in several key areas of the application development life cycle.

• Black Duck Suite Enhancements. Black Duck announced integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Designed to make source code assets easily accessible to developers from within Visual Studio, the Code Search Plug-in simplifies and enables increased re-use of both internal code and publicly available open source software, Searches of over three billion lines of open source code are published on the Black Duck sponsored web site Koders.com. The Code Search Plug-in also searches internal code (inside the enterprise firewall) when used with Black Duck Code Sight.

• Named to SD Times 100. For the third consecutive year Black Duck was recognized by the editors of SD Times as a leader, innovator and influencer in software development. Honored in the Tools and Frameworks category, Black Duck’s software development tools, including the Black Duck Suite, were recognized for helping developers find, select, validate and manage open source components in a multi-source development process.

• New customer growth. The company added 42 new customers in Q2, bringing customer rolls to well in excess of 700. New customers reflect strength in enterprise businesses as well as technology-centric organizations.

• Partnerships. Black Duck expanded its Partner Program, adding key resellers Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd. and Fujitsu Middleware Ltd.

“Black Duck’s products are key enablers for organizations such as Intel to successfully manage and control open source in their software development processes”, said Lisa Lambert, Vice-President, Intel Capital. “As an investor in Black Duck, we are encouraged by the market success shown in the current operating results and look forward to working with Black Duck as it continues its current growth trajectory.”

“New clients, client renewals and expanded use of the Black Duck Suite for managing the use of open source software across the entire software development lifecycle continues to fuel our growth,” said Tim Yeaton, Black Duck Software president and CEO. “Mergers and acquisitions are on the rise across all industries, increasing demand for M&A IP audits, where Black Duck’s technical strength in identifying and automating the management and control of open source software in multi-source development environments is critical. This quarter is further proof that more and more companies understand how the managed use of open source software fuels innovation and helps them gain strategic and competitive advantages.”

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, California, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

Black Duck, Know Your Code and the Black Duck logo are registered trademarks of Black Duck Software, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. Koders is a trademark of Black Duck Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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Black Duck Software
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Black Duck Software Offers Webinar on Managing the Use of Free and Open Source Software in Outsourced Development Projects

Complimentary webinar offers best practices for leveraging the time and cost savings of FOSS while managing legal and technical challenges

FRANKFURT, Germany, June 29, 2010 – Black Duck Software (www.blackducksoftware.com), the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, will present an educational webinar on managing the use of free and open source software (FOSS) in outsourced development projects.

Strategic use of FOSS in outsourced development projects holds the promise of tremendous time and cost savings, but associated legal and technical complexities can cancel out those advantages and expose a company to technical and legal risks if not properly managed. The webinar, Free & Open Software in Outsourcing Projects, provides project managers, outsourcing managers and legal teams with a solid foundation for developing a FOSS management strategy that leverages the benefits and dramatically reduces the risks.

Webinar: Free & Open Source Software in Outsourcing Projects

Date: Thursday, July 1

Time: July 1st at 13:00 CEST (local Germany time)

Audience: Project Managers, Outsourcing Managers, Legal, R&D and IT

Cost: No charge

Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/538179353

This webinar addresses the following key questions:

• What are the legal and technical requirements for using FOSS in outsourcing projects?

• How can FOSS advantages be fully leveraged?

• How can I establish an effective FOSS management strategy for reducing risk while leveraging the time and cost-saving benefits in complex outsourcing projects?

This is the second in a series of three webinars Black Duck is presenting with strategic partners, Bird & Bird and BearingPoint. Bird & Bird is an international commercial law firm with over 800 lawyers worldwide. BearingPoint provides management consulting and technology services.

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, California, London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

Black Duck, Know Your Code and the Black Duck logo are registered trademarks of Black Duck Software, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. Koders is a trademark of Black Duck Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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Peter Vescuso
Black Duck Software
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+1 781-891-5100

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Topaz Partners
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Black Duck Software Offers Technical Due-Diligence Best Practices for Streamlining Mergers and Acquisitions

Enterprise M&A Activity Surges, Spurring Demand for Open Source Software Due Diligence Processes for Qualifying and Accelerating Deals

WALTHAM, Mass., June 21, 2010 – Black Duck Software (www.blackducksoftware.com), the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, today announced best practices guidelines for both acquirers and acquisition prospects navigating the M&A process.

According to the 451 Group, technology sector M&A spending in Q2 2010 is running one-third higher than in Q1 and on track to register the highest quarterly spending total for technology M&A since the start of the credit crisis. The 451 Group credits big deals as the main driver for 2010 M&A spending growth, with 17 deals valued at $1 billion announced so far this year.

“The recent 451 Group analysis supports what we’ve seen with our own customers – cash rich enterprises are hungry for opportunities to grow, diversify and innovate by acquisition,” said Peter Vescuso, Black Duck’s executive vice president of marketing and business development. “Mergers and acquisitions are highly complex business transactions that can be further complicated and delayed due to software intellectual property rights, export compliance and security issues, that can come to light in the midst of a deal. Companies that apply our best practices gain transparency into their software assets so they can avoid these pitfalls and focus on other aspects of navigating M&A deals.”

Black Duck Software has performed code assessment reviews in over $40 billion of M&A transactions, and M&A business for Black Duck grew by 100 percent in Q1 2010 compared to the same time last year.

The following best practices have been developed specifically to aid companies considering or entering into M&A deals:

‘Know Your Code’ Applies to Acquirers and Acquisition Prospects

• As an acquirer, you need to know that the software you are purchasing is licensed correctly and that any proprietary intellectual property is unencumbered. You need to know of any remediation that will need to take place before you can maximize revenue from this acquisition.

• As an acquisition prospect, you need to know what’s in your code base and demonstrate compliance with the associated license obligations. Having policies and processes in place to manage third party code will build confidence in the acquirer, help the deal progress smoothly and avoid findings that could devalue your assets.

Audit Code Before an Acquisition

•  As an acquirer, you need to conduct comprehensive code audits that assure accurate valuation of software assets and mitigate the risk of unanticipated licensing, compliance, security or IP issues that could undermine future value.

• As an acquisition prospect, be pro-active and thoroughly review your code in advance of a transaction. This lets you avoid surprises that might delay/derail the process or affect your valuation.

Use Automation Technology for Code Analysis

• As an acquirer, especially those who conduct numerous acquisitions, you need to extend your due-diligence process to incorporate automated software code analysis as a part of your standard process. This will enable you to accurately and comprehensively inventory code origins and license obligations to uncover conflicts and compliance issues and develop a remediation strategy.

• As an acquisition prospect, make automated analysis an integrated part of your software development process. Start with a policy for open source use and implement tools and processes to confirm compliance with the policy. This way you’ll already have tools and processes in place that can quickly produce the information needed during an acquisition event as well as demonstrate best practices to potential acquirers, reducing their perception of risk and increasing their perception of value.

Dedicate Resources for Analysis and Remediation

• For both acquirers and acquisition prospects, conducting automated code assessment is the first step. Once the results are in, leave it to code analysis and remediation experts to guide you in the resolution of any intellectual IP, export compliance, security or other issues that arise during the code evaluation process. Dedicating resources in this way will provide the best results and allow you to focus on other aspects of the acquisition process.

Additional Black Duck M&A Resources – Register for our June 22nd webinar

Black Duck will be holding a webinar on technical due diligence for M&A led by Russell Hartz of SAP’s Corporate Development organization. Hartz will discuss SAP’s approach, best practices and recommendations for M&A readiness.

The webinar will he held Tuesday, June 22 at 11:30am EDT/8:30am PDT. Learn more and register for Technical Due Diligence for M&A: A Perspective from Corporate Development at SAP by visiting http://www.blackducksoftware.com/news/events/2010-06-22

You can also learn more about how to make all parties involved in technology M&As aware of the importance of software component management by reading the whitepaper, The New Due Diligence: Assessing and Protecting Your Software Asset Value in Mergers, Acquisitions and Financing Rounds.

For more information on automated code analysis, visit http://blackducksoftware.com.

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, California, London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

Black Duck, Know Your Code and the Black Duck logo are registered trademarks of Black Duck Software, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. Koders is a trademark of Black Duck Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

Press Contacts

Peter Vescuso
Black Duck Software
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+1 781-891-5100

Ann Dalrymple
Topaz Partners
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+1 781-404-2432

 

Black Duck Software Named to SD Times 100

Recognized in the Tools and Frameworks category, Black Duck products and services support multi-source development

WALTHAM, Mass., June 7, 2010 – Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software (OSS), today announced that it has been named to the 2010 SD Times 100 for the third year in a row. The list recognizes leaders, innovators and influencers in software development. Black Duck was honored in the Tools and Frameworks category, acknowledging the company’s software development tools - notably the Black Duck Suite - that help developers find, select, validate and manage open source components in a multi-source development process.

“Black Duck is pleased to be recognized as an industry leader by the editors of SD Times,” said Tim Yeaton, President and CEO, Black Duck Software. “As open source has grown in acceptance by large IT development organizations, so too has awareness of the importance of enterprise-class development tools, such as the Black Duck Suite, that automate the management and compliance of open source software. We’re honored to be included.”

The SD Times 100, published annually since 2003, recognizes companies, non-commercial organizations, open source projects and other initiatives for innovation and leadership that most broadly set the agenda and advance the state of the art for software development managers and the industry.

The SD Times 100 considers innovators and leaders in multiple industry categories. When reviewing the nominees, editors considered each company’s offering and reputation and looked for companies that have determined a direction that developers followed. The seventh annual awards are featured in the June 1, 2010 issue and are available online at http://www.sdtimes.com.

For more information, please visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, California, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.  

Black Duck, Know Your Code and the Black Duck logo are registered trademarks of Black Duck Software, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. Koders is a trademark of Black Duck Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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Black Duck Software
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TopazPartners
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Medical Practice Management, Electronic Health Records Applications Lead Open Source Software Projects for Health Care, According to Black Duck Software Analysis

Black Duck Joins OpenHealthTools.org, OSS Health-IT Community

WALTHAM, Mass., May 11, 2010 -  A year of significant growth in the number of open source projects established to develop health care applications was led by practice management and electronic records management projects, according to an analysis by Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software.

Projects such as CARE2X, aimed at increasing integration and interoperability between multiple incompatible health care information systems within an institution, and OpenVista, the open-source version of VistA, top the list of active health care OSS projects in the Black Duck KnowledgeBase, which counts nearly 900 open source software (OSS) projects with a health care focus. The analysis shows a 13 percent growth in the number of projects, with a 38 percent growth in lines of code from 2009 numbers. Projected development costs for the projects -- which combined include over 124 million lines of code -- have grown to approximately $8 billion USD, up from 2009's estimate of $6B, representing 45,000 staff-years of development effort.

Black Duck also announced its membership in Open Health Tools (http://openhealthtools.org), an open source community creating an ecosystem of OSS developers and health care professionals dedicated to developing a health interoperability framework, including tools and reference applications. The Open Health Tools forge hosts Hitex, the Health Information Text Extraction system (https://hitex.projects.openhealthtools.org), one of the largest OSS health care projects tracked by Black Duck. Hitex, which is built on top of the GATE framework, provides analysis pipelines and modules to extract health information from clinical documents.

"The Open Health Tools community welcomes new member Black Duck Software," said Skip McGaughey, Executive Director, OpenHealthTools.org. "Black Duck's development tools address issues that create barriers to open source adoption. In combination with OHT community tools and reference applications, designed to promote interoperability in health care IT, Black Duck's support will increase the pace at which OHT projects evolve and are adopted by health care organizations."

"In addition to improving access to data and bringing innovation to health care IT, the top projects in the Black Duck analysis offer faster time-to-solution and cost-avoidance to an industry facing sweeping reform at the federal level," said Peter Vescuso, Executive Vice President, Black Duck Software. "The increased focus we see on interoperability as a project goal in health care reflects trends in the broader open source community, which supports the increasing role that open source projects can play in advancing the state of health care IT."

Project Name Description CARE2X Integrated Hospital Information System Integrated Hospital Information System. Surgery, Nursing, Outpatient, Wards, Labs, Pharmacy, Security, Admission, Schedulers, Repair, Communication & more. Modular & scalable. OpenVista OpenVista® is the open-source version of VistA, an enterprise grade health care information system developed by the U.S. Veterans Affairs and deployed at 1,500 global facilities. OpenVista is a registered trademark of Medsphere Systems Corporation OsiriX 3D DICOM Viewer Biosignal Tools Software library for processing of biomedical signals (EEG, ECG, etc.) FreeMED GPL-licensed Electronic Medical Record and Practice Management system for medical providers OpenEMR Open Source Practice Management, Electronic Medical Record, Prescription Writing and Medical Billing application. DVTk DICOM Viewer and Validator.  Test, validate and diagnose communication protocols in medical environments (DICOM, HL7 and IHE). Ogles Ogles (OpenGLExtractor) is an open source software package by the Eyebeam OpenLab that allows for the capture and re-use of 3D geometry data from 3D graphics applications. HOSxP Hospital information system used in 150 hospitals in Thailand. HOSxP has many modules which keep data of Patient Image, Symptoms, Physical Condition, Investigation, Diagnosis, Treatment including Procedure / Medication, etc. OpenHMS Project Collection of projects and many subprojects developed by Health Market Science. This is a robust collection of development libraries, APIs, and tools oriented around data manipulation and professional software development.

Black Duck spiders the Internet for open source code, collecting information about projects and code into the Black Duck KnowledgeBase, which contains information on more than 230,000 open source projects from more than 4,500 unique websites. Black Duck reported earlier this year that more than 19,000 new open source projects were started in 2009.

For more information, please visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry's leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, California, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

Black Duck, Know Your Code and the Black Duck logo are registered trademarks of Black Duck Software, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. Koders is a trademark of Black Duck Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

Press Contacts

Peter Vescuso
Black Duck Software
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+1 781-891-5100

Ann Dalrymple
TopazPartners
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+1 781-404-2432

Open Source as a Strategic Business Enabler Webinar With Black Duck Software, Highlighting SAP Case Study Tuesday, May 11 at 11:30 a.m. ET

WALTHAM, Mass., May 5, 2010- Black Duck Software (www.blackducksoftware.com), a leading provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software (OSS), will hold a webinar describing how its customer SAP AG uses the Black Duck Suite to manage the increasing use of open source software.

SAP, the world's leading provider of business software, maintains its market position by focusing on continuous product innovation. Open source software has helped the company's 15,000 software developers increase the speed of innovation and spurred development productivity, also yielding improvements in interoperability and standardization.

In this webinar Black Duck Software (www.blackducksoftware.com), together with representatives of SAP, will review the benefits open source offers to development organizations, the management challenges it presents, and approaches for addressing those challenges. SAP will describe how its use of open source evolved from managing open source as an exception, to making it an integral part of the company's multi-source development approach, to becoming the third-largest corporate code contributor to the Eclipse Foundation. The webinar will conclude with an interactive question-and-answer session.

Join Black Duck Software, along with SAP, as they discuss the benefits of using open source as a strategic business enabler and review the management, policy and process aspects of succeeding with open source software in a multi-source development environment.

Webinar: Open Source as a Strategic Business Enabler - A Case Study with SAP     Date: Tuesday, May 11, 2010     Time: 11:30 a.m. ET     Cost: No charge     Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/588505625

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry's leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, California, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

Black Duck, Know Your Code and the Black Duck logo are registered trademarks of Black Duck Software, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. Koders is a trademark of Black Duck Software, Inc.
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Black Duck Software
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Black Duck Software Survey Reveals Top Technology Trends, Challenges and Barriers to Open Source Software Use Affecting Enterprise Development Organizations

Developers Cite Cloud Computing and Mobility as Top Disruptors; Greater Productivity Demands and Contributing Back to Open Source Software Projects Cited as Top Challenges

WALTHAM, Mass., May 4, 2010 -  Software developers from leading global enterprises are looking to cloud computing and mobility as platforms for innovation while facing increased pressure to produce more with fewer resources. Meanwhile, developers are increasing usage of open source software (OSS) to improve efficiencies and accelerate development cycles, but barriers to greater usage of OSS across the enterprise persist. Even among early adopters, few enterprises are fully leveraging the potential time and cost savings of broader use of OSS.

These are the results of a recent survey of development executives from fourteen leading global enterprises conducted by Black Duck Software (www.blackducksoftware.com), the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software. Enterprises participating in the survey represent leaders in a range of industries, including semi-conductor, financial services, business software, mobile, healthcare, media and entertainment and data storage.

Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Mobile Spur Application Development

When asked about the top technology trends affecting application development, survey participants reported innovations in cloud computing/virtualization and mobile as the most disruptive technologies currently influencing development projects across the enterprise. Respondents also cited distributed development/collaboration, Agile development methods and multi-company collaboration on OSS projects as top trends impacting development projects. 

Developers Doing More with Less

While cloud computing, mobile and distributed development trends are ramping up the intensity and pace of application development, development managers said that they are under pressure to increase the number of products and releases per year with fewer resources and under tighter budget restrictions. Respondents said that contributing back to OSS projects is another top challenge: they want and need to contribute back, but the lack of formal policies within the enterprise for managing OSS contributions remains the top barrier to participation.

Collaboration and sharing source code globally across distributed teams in addition to processes for enabling code standardization and re-use across the enterprise also were cited as top application development challenges.

OSS Project Contribution Barriers Impeding Broader Use

The fourteen global enterprises participating in the survey are early adopters and leaders in leveraging OSS for improving the efficiency of the software development process; nonetheless, virtually every enterprise said that they are only partially harnessing the potential of OSS. When asked why, respondents cited the lack of a more comprehensive policy and strategy for OSS as the top barrier. Developers responding to this question reiterated the challenges of contributing back to OSS projects as another major barrier to greater use of OSS. As a result -- respondents reported -- developer changes are often not integrated into the mainstream code base, reducing the development team's ability to rely on the OSS projects they're using for the long term.

Although not among the top impediments to greater use of OSS, respondents cited executive buy in/support, concerns about the cost and complexity of managing OSS use, and the perceived risk of OSS as additional challenges.

"These survey results show that the top global enterprises understand the value of using open source software in the application development process, but barriers to broader adoption persist," said Jim Berets, vice president of product management at Black Duck Software. "Most of these barriers can be traced to the lack of an enterprise-wide open source strategy and clear policies and procedures for managing its use. The good news is these barriers appear to be falling rapidly as development organizations realize the benefits of open source and take proactive steps to adopt strategies, policies and solutions for managing its use across the global enterprise."

For more information about Black Duck's Enterprise Software Development Challenges Survey or to request an interview with Black Duck, contact Ann Dalrymple at adarlrymple@topazpartners.com, or by phone at 781-404-2432.

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry's leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, California, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

Black Duck, Know Your Code and the Black Duck logo are registered trademarks of Black Duck Software, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. Koders is a trademark of Black Duck Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

Press Contacts
Peter Vescuso
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Black Duck Software Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm

Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor” report are innovative, impactful and intriguing

WALTHAM, Mass., April 27, 2010—Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, today announced it has been included in the prestigious “Cool Vendors in Application Development, 2010” report by Gartner, Inc. 1 Black Duck enables increased productivity and faster innovation in multi-source development with open source software while controlling its use, managing the associated risks, and ensuring compliance.

“Multi-source development with open-source software (OSS) has become virtually ubiquitous among mainstream IT organizations. Whether they know it or not, 80 percent or more of Global 2000 IT organizations use open source technologies today,” said Tim Yeaton, president and CEO, Black Duck Software. “Strategic use of open source offers savvy development organizations opportunities to speed time-to-solution and increase business value while reducing costs.”

The vendors evaluated by Gartner in this report show how they are delivering next-generation capabilities in several key areas of the application development life cycle. Black Duck was one of five companies identified as a “Cool Vendor” in the application development space.

Black Duck’s flagship offering, the Black Duck Suite, is a comprehensive management platform that automates the discovery, analysis and governance of software assets. Organizations using Black Duck are able to identify, adopt and manage open source code to speed the development process while addressing management, compliance and security challenges commonly associated with open source use. A foundation element of the Suite is the Black Duck KnowledgeBase, the industry’s most comprehensive database of open source software and associated license and other information, including over 230,000 projects from more than 4,700 sites. Black Duck also maintains the free open source search engine Koders.com, used by tens of thousands of developers daily to search billions of lines of code written in over 30 languages and identified with 29 software licenses.

For more information about Black Duck’s solutions and services that support application development, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, California, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

Black Duck, Know Your Code and the Black Duck logo are registered trademarks of Black Duck Software, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. Koders is a trademark of Black Duck Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

1 Gartner “Cool Vendors in Application Development, 2010” by Thomas E. Murphy, Mark Driver, David Norton, 21 April 2010

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First Quarter 2010 One of Unprecedented Growth for Black Duck Software

Bookings Climb 80% Amid Economic Improvement, EMEA Expansion

WALTHAM, Mass., April 13, 2010 - Continuing on its trajectory of rapid growth, Black Duck Software today announced that Q1 bookings surged by 80 percent compared to the same period in 2009. Strong performance across all sectors and growth in new customer licenses and professional services drove results, with new clients including Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH, Iron Mountain, and Cloudera signing on.

First-quarter also reflected exceptional overseas performance, especially in EMEA, spurred by Black Duck's commitment to developing local presence and partnering with leading local resellers, including newly signed Manageware (Israel), Anacom (Brazil) and Global Maxlink (Malaysia).

Outperforming most companies in the tech sector, Black Duck's focus on the fast-growing open source segment reflects the increased enterprise recognition of the benefits of using, managing and controlling the use of open source software in application development. As enterprises adopt a multi-source development model that combines the use of open source, third party and proprietary code, Black Duck products and services are critical components of managing the use of open source code at enterprise scale in an automated and compliant manner.

First quarter 2010 milestones included:

• New customer growth. The company added 31 new customers in Q1 and now has more than 700 customers. New customers in the quarter reflect particular strength in communications and enterprise software.

• Partnerships. Black Duck expanded its Partner Program across all categories, including:

• Solutions Partnerships -- Black Duck joined forces with CollabNet, a leading provider of Agile application lifecycle management solutions, to integrate Protex and Code Sight with CollabNet Subversion and Team Forge as part of the CollabXchange program.

• Strategic partnerships -- The company formed a strategic partnership with the Olliance Group to develop and deliver an IP management services offering.

• Reseller programs -- Black Duck announced new training and certification programs for its 18 reseller and legal partners, extending the company's reach into multiple markets, industries and regions across the globe

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• Joint Venture. To expand its presence in Greater China, Black Duck formed a joint venture with Pacific Advantage International, a pioneer in the outsourced sales and technical support business for Asia Pacific.  

• Protex Enhancements. Black Duck announced usability and performance improvements to Protex 5.1, the core component of the Black Duck Suite. The offering improves search and performance for large enterprise code sets by as much as 5X over the prior release and builds on Black Duck's expanded KnowledgeBase.

"We continue our strong growth because the economy is driving IT executives and development managers to seek new, more cost-effective development practices that take advantage of open source software," said Tim Yeaton, Black Duck Software president and CEO. "Black Duck customers recognize the need for tools that enable managed use of open source software in their application development initiatives. This multi-source development approach gives these organizations the ability to rapidly innovate even in a difficult budget climate, providing them with greater competitiveness and agility."

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry's leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, California, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

Black Duck, Know Your Code and the Black Duck logo are registered trademarks of Black Duck Software, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. Koders is a trademark of Black Duck Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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Black Duck Software Announces Availability of Code Search Plug-in for Visual Studio 2010

Freely Downloadable Plug-in Enables Search for Open Source and Enterprise Code

WALTHAM, Mass., April 12, 2010 - Black Duck Software, a leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, today announced the availability of a freely downloadable Code Search Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. By making source code assets easily accessible to developers from within Visual Studio, code search simplifies and enables increased re-use of both internal code and publicly available open source software. Code search improves developer productivity, raises software quality, supports component standardization, and enhances code compliance.

The Black Duck Code Search Plug-in for Visual Studio 2010:

• Allows developers to search code from numerous repositories in a single place without leaving the Visual Studio 2010 environment.

• Searches over three billion lines of open source code published on the Black Duck sponsored web site Koders.com.

• Searches internal code (inside the enterprise firewall) indexed from TFS, SourceSafe and other version control systems (when used with Black Duck Code Sight).

• Promotes re-use with SmartSearch™, a background agent that proactively identifies opportunities for re-use, within the IDE, by presenting search results that are relevant to the code the developer is creating.

"We are pleased to make code search available to Windows and Microsoft .NET Framework developers, who are looking for ways to speed software development," said Phil Odence, Vice President, Black Duck Software. "The Black Duck Code Search Plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 enables IDE access to billions of lines of open source and proprietary code assets, speeding application development cycles, promoting code re-use and improving business agility."

"Microsoft is pleased that Black Duck Software, a Visual Studio Industry Partner, has invested early in supporting Visual Studio 2010 and our next-generation application development platform, and is today simultaneously shipping Code Search Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010," said Matt Nunn, group product manager of Visual Studio at Microsoft Corp. "Products like the Black Duck Code Search Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 help customers simplify their development process from design to deployment when using Microsoft products like Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4."

Black Duck Code Sight is a source code search application that brings transparency and easy access to an enterprise's vast and often distributed source code resources. Code Sight indexes code across an organization's source code repositories to enable fast search and navigation at enterprise scale. Koders.com is a free on-line search engine for open source software and other web-downloadable code. Thousands of developers use Koders daily to search over 3 billion lines of code written in over 30 languages. Koders enables developers to quickly find the best reusable open source code, methods, examples and algorithms.

The Black Duck Code Search Plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 may be downloaded at: http://corp.koders.com/downloads/plugins#IDE. Download Black Duck Code Sight Free Edition (including the code search plug-in for Visual Studio 2010) at www.blackducksoftware.com/code-sight/download. For more information on the Black Duck Suite which automates the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, see http://www.blackducksoftware.com.

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process.

Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry's leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, California, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

Black Duck, Know Your Code and the Black Duck logo are registered trademarks of Black Duck Software, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. Koders is a trademark of Black Duck Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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