Black Duck Software Names 2011 Open Source Rookies of the Year

Cloud, Gaming and Social Media Development Toolkits Take Center Stage in Top 10 Open Source Projects; Data Reveals Decisive Shift to GitHub Use, Diverse License Choices

BURLINGTON, Mass., January 18, 2012 – Two open source cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) projects, two projects tailored to the needs of game developers, and a toolkit to aid social media application developers in the creation of web apps are stand-outs in the Black Duck Software 2011 Open Source Rookie of the Year list, announced today. The fourth annual Open Source Rookies of the Year program recognizes the top new open source projects initiated in 2011.

Using data on open source projects from Ohloh.net and the Black Duck® KnowledgeBase™, Black Duck reviewed thousands of open source projects started in 2011 to select the Open Source Rookies of the Year. Using a weighted scoring system, points were awarded based on commit activity (commits per day), size of the project team and the number of in-bound links to the project. Black Duck determined the top 10 projects following an audit of its findings and normalization of scores.

Highlights of this year’s analysis include:

• Nine of the top 10 and 56 percent of the top 50 projects are now on github. In 2010, just four of the top 10 and 32 percent of the top 50 projects were on github, a major shift in just one year. In the balance of the top 50 projects, GoogleCode was the repository for 10 percent, followed by SourceForge at four percent.
• Javascript (28 percent), Java (14 percent) and Ruby (12 percent) were the languages of choice for the top 50 Open Source Rookies.
• Three of the top 10 new projects in 2011 use the Apache License, Version 2.0, and one each chose the GPLv2, GNU AGPLv3, SpringSource License, Eclipse Public License, Mozilla Public License Version 1.1, WTFPL, and the Common Public Attribution License.

The Black Duck 2011 Open Source Rookies of the Year include:

• Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of web applications and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation and more.
• BrowserID is part of Mozilla’s exploration into an identity system that puts users in control, independent of any particular service provider. Browser ID is a secure, decentralized, open source, cross-browser way to sign onto websites using your email address. With BrowserID, users select from their various email addresses, giving them a consistent experience across all of their personas. BrowserID helps users keep their online experience secure and private through the browser by limiting the flow of information to what is strictly necessary to let users log in.
• Canvas is the only commercial open source learning management system and the only LMS native to the cloud. The Canvas LMS source code is primarily developed at Instructure, but is supported by a global community of developers that share Instructure's vision. Canvas leverages other modern technologies like HTML5, jQuery, OAuth, and numerous external service integrations. All of these high-performing best-of-the-web solutions, through Canvas, help educators and learners collaborate more effectively.
• Cloud Foundry is an open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) providing a choice of clouds, developer frameworks and application services. Initiated by VMware with broad industry support, Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications. It is an open source project and is available through a variety of private cloud distributions and public cloud instances
• Moai, billed as the mobile platform for pro game developers, differentiates itself through its cloud-based game services and rapid development of iOS, Android, and Chrome titles, all built in the industry standard Lua scripting language. Moai developers appreciate the ability to write both client and server-side game logic without context switching or cross-team projects, as well as the open-source nature of the Moai SDK that ensures they can build titles without compromises. Previously announced game companies using Moai include Bungie Aerospace, Harebrained Schemes, DistinctDev, Go Go Kiddo and Nay Games.
• Mooege is an open source and freely available educational game server emulator written in C#.
• OpenShift is Red Hat's free, auto-scaling Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) built on open source technologies that enable developers to quickly deploy applications to the cloud. OpenShift supports many popular languages, frameworks and middleware components.
• Orion is a browser-based open tool integration platform built by the Eclipse platform team and focused on moving software development to the web as a web experience. Orion addresses the core coding activities (code editing, project navigation, search, and working with your source control system) and provides extensibility mechanisms to allow application level linking with other web-based tools.
• rstat.us - Microblogging has taken the world by storm, and rstat.us is the newest place to participate in the collective conscious of the planet. There are two things that make rstat.us special: simplicity and openness. Our interface is clean and easy to understand. We give you just enough features to be interesting, but not enough to be complicated and confusing. The programming code that makes up rstat.us is available for anyone to download, free of charge. Programmers can use that code to run their own websites just like rstat.us, and you can subscribe to your friends on any site that supports the OStatus protocol, like identi.ca. This also means that you can own your data: we'll never stop you from having full access to everything you've put into rstat.us.
• Salt is an open source configuration management and remote execution application. Salt is written with the intent of making central system management and configuration as simple, yet as flexible as possible. Salt is the core application of the saltstack project.

“The data underlying the 2011 Open Source Rookies list is consistent with shifts we see in our day-to-day business, where cloud, mobile and gaming draw great support from involved communities of open source developers,” said Tim Yeaton, president and CEO of Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of strategy, products and services for enabling enterprise scale adoption of open source software. “The key observation – that open source is driving innovation across many industries – shows the power of the open source community model and the increasing importance of social development, where developers are supported by social communities connected through social media.”

“Another example of the importance of evidence based assessment and decision making,” said Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst and Co-founder, Redmonk. “The Black Duck Open Source Rookies of the Year program is an intriguing, quantitative measurement of project performance and traction.”

Honorable Mentions
In addition to the Open Source Rookies of the Year, Black Duck identified three projects that deserve Honorable Mention due to their outstanding rate of commits and team support. These include:

• Apache Rave, a podling under development in the Apache Incubator, Apache Rave is a new web and social mashup engine. It will provide an out-of-the-box as well as an extendible lightweight Java platform to host, serve and aggregate (Open)Social Gadgets and services through a highly customizable and Web 2.0 friendly front-end. Rave is targeted as an engine for internet and intranet portals and as a building block to provide context-aware personalization and collaboration features for multi-site/multi-channel (mobile) oriented and content driven websites and (social) network oriented services and platforms.
• OpenStack Dashboard, code-name Horizon provides a baseline user interface for managing OpenStack services. It is a reference implementation built using the django-openstack project which contains all of the core functionality needed to develop a site-specific implementation.
• Rudder is a new open source tool in the configuration management domain. Specifically aimed at drift assessment, it addresses automation, ongoing verification and repairs, centralizing information and knowledge about your infrastructure, compliance reporting thus helping to keep drift from nominal behavior low. In a nutshell, clearly separated tasks permit technical experts to create configuration templates for the tools they know best, thus letting non-experts leverage this power via a modern web interface, such as: architects or security officers who implement policy, junior sysadmins who use and reuse such policies to setup services, and pretty much anyone who digs into real-time compliance reports and error logs.

“Recognizing open source projects in their early stages is crucial to fostering the OSS community and encouraging innovation,” said Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack Project Policy Board. OpenStack was a 2010 Open Source Rookie of the Year, and new core project OpenStack Dashboard, code-name Horizon, garnered Honorable Mention in 2011. “It is exciting to see OpenStack included in the Black Duck Open Source Rookie of the Year program for the second consecutive year.”

For more information about the 2011 Black Duck Open Source Rookies of the Year, visit www.blackducksoftware.com/rookies. For more information about Black Duck Software, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of strategy, 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-solution and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, compliance and security challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and Ohloh.net, the largest free public directory of open source software and a vibrant web community of free and open source software developers and users. Black Duck is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

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Black Duck Software Reports Another Year of Record Growth

34% Year-Over-Year Growth Fueled by New License Sales, Existing Customer Expansion; Customer Base Tops 1,000 with Addition of 1st Holdings, Dyn, Hortonworks & Pentaho

BURLINGTON, Mass., January 17, 2012 – Black Duck Software, the leader in open source software knowledge, adoption and governance, today announced record 2011 results, extending its rapid growth and market leadership. The company, which has achieved growth in excess of 30 percent since 2008, achieved 34 percent year-over-year growth in 2011, fueled by increased demand for solutions which provide management and governance for customers deploying open source software. Exceptionally strong growth occurred in the Asia-Pacific region, the result of early investment by the company in sales, partnerships and development of a strong support infrastructure.

Black Duck’s success comes despite the challenging economic environment, pointing to the strength of enterprise demand for solutions to provide management and governance of open source within the software development process. The Black Duck® Suite, the company’s flagship enterprise solution, enables enterprise adoption of open source in conjunction with internally developed and third party code, which leading companies use to speed innovation, improve operational efficiency, and increase competitive advantage.

“Organizations rely on complex sourcing for innovative software delivery, and use of open source software has increased dramatically in the wake of economic volatility," said Melinda Ballou, program director for IDC's Application Lifecycle Management and Executive Strategies service. "Management and governance are key for companies seeking adaptive software use and reuse in this context, since OSS increasingly dominates agile software creation and platforms for emerging areas such as mobile and Big Data.”

Black Duck Software 2011 milestones included:

• The addition of 240 new customers, bringing the company’s total to 1,000 global customers. New customers in the fourth quarter of 2011 include 1st Holdings, Inc., Dyn, Hortonworks and Pentaho.
• Black Duck closed a $12M round of financing, led by new investor Split Rock Partners, with participation from existing investors. The company, which has been cash-flow positive since 2009, is using the funds to accelerate growth, advance key development projects, continue acquisitions and expand its global presence.
• Black Duck announced significant enhancements to its Code Sight 2.0 code search engine, dramatically boosting code search productivity for individual developers and global enterprise development organizations.
• Black Duck launched two free educational initiatives: the Open Source Delivers blog (www.opensourcedelivers.com) and the Open Source Resource Center (http://www.blackducksoftware.com/osrc/).
  • The Open Source Delivers blog focuses on the value open source brings to enterprises and communities, particularly around the adoption and enablement of OSS. Contributors in 2011 included Gil Yehuda of Yahoo!, Ian Skerrett of the Eclipse Foundation, RedMonk analyst Steve O’Grady, Claus von Riegen of SAP AG, Erynn Petersen of AOL and Robert Blasi, Esq. of Goodwin Procter, among others.
  • The Open Source Resource Center, an educational initiative for those interested in learning more about open source, includes a glossary of open source software terms, information about webinars and events, as well as a list of open source resources.
• Black Duck was named to Software Magazine’s Software 500 for the third consecutive year. The list recognizes the 500 largest software companies in the world.
• The company launched the Black Duck University Training & Certification program, providing online courses to help users of the Black Duck® Suite™ learn to manage OSS, encourage innovation, increase development speed and ensure compliance. For more information about the program, please visit http://www.blackducksoftware.com/services/training/bdu.
• Black Duck announced support for SPDX™ Version 1.0, an open source standard under development by the SPDX Working Group of the Linux Foundation, which Black Duck co-chairs. For more information about the standard and Black Duck’s support, please visit http://www.blackducksoftware.com/spdx.

“This past year was strong for Black Duck and 2012 promises to be equally successful,” said Tim Yeaton, Black Duck Software president and CEO. “The funding we received from Split Rock in 2011 will allow us to significantly accelerate organic growth as we invest in expanding our product and services offerings, and invest in sales and marketing to bring these offerings to a broader set of markets. This funding will also enable us to consider additional acquisitions and to invest in international expansion as we work to drive our growth in 2012 and beyond. In 2011, we expanded our workforce by 43, and expect to add an additional 61 people to our team in 2012.”

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of strategy, products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of free and open source software (FOSS), at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Black Duck® powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source; Ohloh.net, the largest FOSS community and free public directory of open source, and The Olliance Group, the leading open source business and strategy consulting firm. Among the 400 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com, the company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

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Olliance Group Announces 7th Annual Open Source Think Tank Focusing on Industry-Driven Community Innovation

2012 Event to Include Case Study from the GENIVI Alliance, Keynote from Red Hat

 

Palo Alto, CA, January 12, 2012 – Olliance Group, a Black Duck company, and DLA Piper today announced the upcoming Open Source Think Tank 2012 conference, which will be held April 12-14, 2012 in Napa, California. The exclusive, semi-annual conference brings together CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, legal experts, investors and senior executives involved in the commercial application of open source, mobile and cloud computing technologies to discuss the current state and future direction of open source.

This event’s theme, “Industry-Driven Community Innovation,” will examine recent industry consortia efforts including GENIVI Alliance in automotive, Polarsys in aerospace, OSEHR in health care and OpenMAMA in financial services. With the stated purposes of increasing the pace of innovation and sharing costs around non-differentiated technologies, this movement towards “super communities” or “communities of communities” could have a far reaching impact on open source and the technology ecosystem in general.

The conference will feature a case study by the GENIVI Alliance, and a keynote presentation from Paul Cormier, Executive Vice President and President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat. In addition, there will be a keynote panel of community luminaries including: Doug Cutting, founder of Hadoop, Rod Johnson, founder of Spring and Jono Bacon, community manager for Ubuntu and author of The Art of Community.

"With the constant maturing and adoption of open source and the advent of super communities, open source continues to gain acceptance as a strategic technology for both technology vendors and enterprise IT organizations. We believe this year’s Think Tank theme, industry-driven community innovation, illustrates the strategic value of OSS for enterprises in all sectors,” said Andrew Aitken, GM, Olliance Group and the Founder of the Open Source Think Tank. “We're very excited to have the participation of numerous well-respected industry leaders for our spring conference, and are eager to continue to foster a community of healthy debate and collaboration."

The spring 2012 Open Source Think Tank will be held at the Silverado Resort in Napa. Co-hosted by Olliance Group and DLA Piper, the conference includes an interactive format of group sessions, brainstorming and real-world case studies in which participants actively contribute, allowing them to openly share concerns, issues, experiences and common challenges while collaboratively developing solutions. The event will be led by co-hosts Andrew Aitken, founder and GM, Olliance Group, a Black Duck company, and Mark Radcliffe, Partner, DLA Piper.

“The Open Source Think Tank is unique: it brings together the thought leaders of the open source industry to discuss and influence the future of the industry,” said Mark F. Radcliffe, Partner, DLA Piper. “With open source being widely used and accepted, the industry faces a new set of challenges, and the Open Source Think Tank provides an unparalleled forum to discuss how to address them.”

For more information about Open Source Think Tank Napa 2012, please visit: http://thinktank.olliancegroup.com.

About the Open Source Think Tank
The Open Source Think Tank is the only by-invitation gathering where leading global experts come together to collaborate on the issues facing commercial open source and the evolution of cloud computing. The unique format uses real-world business cases to engage the audience in brainstorming solutions to the adoption and maturation of open source and cloud computing. The structured working sessions and social activities are designed to connect the participants and facilitate the building of strong business relationships across the entire ecosystem.

For more information about Think Tank, or to apply for an invitation, please visit http://thinktank.olliancegroup.com.

About Olliance Group
Olliance Group, a Black Duck company, is the leading open source business and strategy consulting firm. Our mission is to help clients capitalize on the strategic, technological, and financial benefits of open source software. Clients include Fortune 500 enterprises, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), start-up firms, venture capital groups and government entities.

About DLA Piper
DLA Piper a leading global legal services practice providing services to the open source industry. The firm provides advice in corporate, tax, licensing, trademark and licensing to both large and small companies. With 3,500 lawyers in 29 countries and 67 cities, DLA Piper can assist companies virtually anywhere in the world, from the US to the People's Republic of China to Dubai. For more information, please visit http://www.dlapiper.com.

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Black Duck Software Announces Release of Export 6.0 with Rapid ID

Component of the Black Duck Suite 6, Export 6.0 Offers Expanded Encryption Analysis for Software Export

Waltham, Mass., December 7, 2011 – Black Duck Software, the leader in open source software knowledge, adoption and governance, today announced the release of Export 6.0, a component of the Black Duck® Suite™. The Suite is a comprehensive, automated code management platform which enables the enterprise-scale use and management of open source software (OSS) in software development.

An enhancement to Black Duck Suite 6, Export 6.0 includes expanded functionality using Rapid ID™, Black Duck’s code identification technology, as well as an enhanced Encryption Bill of Materials.

With Rapid ID, Export 6.0 enables developers and export managers to “teach” code IDs to the Suite, speeding the encryption analysis process to discover undetected encryption algorithms. More than 20,000 open source projects include encryption algorithms strong enough to require filing with the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) if the code is exported from the United States. Rapid ID speeds the analysis process by allowing companies to automatically recognize and identify files with encryption algorithms.

The enhanced Encryption Bill of Materials (BOM) improves tracking of a customer’s export data. The BOM includes newly-added customer-defined fields for tracking custom data and audit trail capability to enable customers to track comments and other events, including identification, reset, declarations, exclusions and results.

“Using the new Rapid ID capabilities within Black Duck Export will reduce time spent discovering and identifying encryption within our software,” said Lisa McKinley, Export Compliance Manager, Sonus Networks, a leader in IP networking with proven expertise in delivering secure and reliable next generation infrastructure and subscriber solutions. “By allowing Sonus to 'teach' encryption identification, which can then be used throughout all of Sonus, we'll manage our export/import compliance requirements more efficiently.”

Sonus has benefitted from the use of Export to enable it to compete in the worldwide mobile market while ensuring compliance with the export/import regulations of various countries.

“Open source encourages and simplifies software reuse, which saves development cycles and speeds time-to-solution,” said Bill McQuaide, Executive Vice President of Products and Strategy, Black Duck Software. “However, companies may be unaware of encryption technology in their software products, especially in third-party and OSS code. Black Duck Export 6.0 provides powerful new tools to detect encryption algorithms, enabling companies to easily and quickly comply with software export regulations.”

Export 6.0 is available today.

For more information about Black Duck Software, Black Duck Suite 6 or Export 6.0, visit http://www.blackducksoftware.com.

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of strategy, 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-solution and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, compliance and security challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and Ohloh.net, the largest free public directory of open source software and a vibrant web community of free and open source software developers and users. Black Duck is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

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Black Duck Software Joins GENIVI Alliance

Leading Provider of Open Source Management Solutions Brings Open Source Governance Expertise to Automotive Industry Alliance

WALTHAM, Mass., November 17, 2011 – Black Duck Software, the leader in open source software knowledge, adoption and governance, today announced it has joined the GENIVI Alliance as an Associate Member. Black Duck will work with the GENIVI Alliance to provide open source compliance strategy, program development and training to Alliance members, which include top automakers and automotive software suppliers.

The GENIVI Alliance is an automotive and consumer electronics industry association driving the development and adoption of an open in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) reference platform. Among the Alliance’s goals are the delivery of a reusable, open source IVI platform consisting of Linux-based core services, middleware and open application layer interfaces; development and support of an open source community of IVI developers; and training and support programs to help software developers create compliant IVI applications.

“The automotive industry is in a perfect position to leverage the cooperative open source development approach with GENIVI,” said Tim Yeaton, President and CEO, Black Duck Software. “With our expertise in helping developers find, select and use open source code components, Black Duck is already an active member of the Alliance, supporting both automotive manufacturers (OEMs) and software developers in their efforts to develop and deliver open, compliant IVI systems.”

Recently, Black Duck partnered with fellow GENIVI-member MontaVista, developer of the MontaVista Automotive Technology Platform (ATP), an embedded Linux-based development platform used by Tier 1 automotive software suppliers. Tier 1 suppliers, which work directly with leading OEMs to deliver in-vehicle infotainment systems, use the MontaVista ATP embedded platform to integrate OEM proprietary components and third-party open source software into comprehensive, GENIVI-compliant IVI solutions.

“We are pleased to welcome Black Duck as a member of the GENIVI Alliance,” said Steve Crumb, Executive Director, GENIVI Alliance. “We look forward to Black Duck teaming with other GENIVI members to help the Alliance and its members enhance open source scanning and license compliance policies to ensure code contributed to the Alliance meets open source licensing requirements.”

Black Duck’s flagship product, the Black Duck® Suite™, enables the enterprise-scale use and management of open source software (OSS) in software development. Black Duck tools help companies and software developers effectively acquire, manage and govern the use of OSS in software development, improving development ROI, accelerating time-to-solution and concentrating effort and investment on creating business value in their software. Many of the largest companies in the world, including leading automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, use Black Duck software daily to help improve the effectiveness of their software development initiatives via expanded use of OSS.

For more information about Black Duck Software visit http://www.blackducksoftware.com.

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of strategy, 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-solution and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, compliance and security challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and Ohloh.net, the largest free public directory of open source software and a vibrant web community of free and open source software developers and users. Black Duck is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

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About GENIVI Alliance
GENIVI Alliance is a non-profit industry association whose mission is to drive the broad adoption of an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) open source development platform. GENIVI will accomplish this by aligning requirements, delivering reference implementations, offering certification programs and fostering a vibrant open source IVI community. GENIVI’s work will result in shortened development cycles, quicker time-to-market, and reduced costs for companies developing IVI equipment and software. GENIVI is headquartered in San Ramon, Calif. www.genivi.org.

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MontaVista and Black Duck Announce Partnership to Provide Open Source Code Management Solutions to the Automotive Market

Integration of Black Duck tools with MontaVista’s Automotive Technology Platform facilitates open source code management for Tier1s and OEMs

SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 9, 2011 – MontaVista® Software, LLC, today announced a partnership with Black Duck Software to deliver tools to ease management of open source software and licensing compliance for the automotive industry. MontaVista has entered into this partnership with Black Duck to better automate the management, governance and secure use of open source software to provide a level of confidence unprecedented in the automotive industry.

As many automotive OEMs and Tier1s move to adopt open source Linux-based systems, there is a requirement to deliver complete code inventory and licensing reports. The combination of MontaVista’s Automotive Technology Platform (ATP) and Black Duck tools enables companies developing solutions for the In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) market to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, compliance and security challenges associated with open source software. A complete IVI solution is an intricate combination of components drawn from a multitude of vendors and open source projects. The integration of Black Duck tools into ATP allows MontaVista to deliver GENIVI-compliant solutions while allowing Tier1s and OEMs to maximize the use of open-source solutions with confidence throughout the product development lifecycle.

MontaVista’s ATP enables companies to administer how software assets are created, managed and licensed. Fully integrated solutions provided by MontaVista combine customer proprietary components, GENIVI-compliant open source software and MontaVista’s embedded platform and services. The ATP platform, integrated with Black Duck tools, simplifies the management of intellectual property (IP) rights in this sophisticated development environment.

With this partnership MontaVista removes a barrier to the transition from proprietary software environments to cost effective and standardized open source implementations that are delivering today’s more consumer orientated IVI solutions.

“MontaVista offers the automotive electronics industry a great embedded platform, and is also providing advice and know how on all aspects of software development,” said Tim Yeaton, Black Duck Software President and CEO. “We are thrilled MontaVista is helping its customers manage the use of open source software in development with Black Duck tools.”

“With the release of our latest version of MV Automotive Technology Platform, MontaVista added secure and powerful application oriented environments of HTML5 and Android,” said Vincent Rerolle, President of MontaVista Software “The addition of Black Duck tools takes MV ATP to the next level. We are enabling our customers to leverage open-source solutions while providing confidence in managing intellectual property rights and navigating the complexity of software licenses. Reducing the complexity surrounding open source code license management will result in faster adoption of Linux-based solutions in the automotive industry.”

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of strategy, 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-solution and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, compliance and security challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and Ohloh.net, the largest free public directory of open source software and a vibrant web community of free and open source software developers and users. Black Duck is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

About MontaVista Software
MontaVista Software, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), is a leader in embedded Linux commercialization. For over 10 years, MontaVista has been helping embedded developers get the most out of open source by adding commercial quality, integration, hardware enablement, expert support, and the resources of the MontaVista development community. Because MontaVista customers enjoy faster time to market, more competitive device functionality, and lower total cost, more devices have been deployed with MontaVista than with any other Linux. To learn more, please visit www.mvista.com.

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States and other countries. MontaVista is a registered trademark of MontaVista Software, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners

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Black Duck Software Announces Code Sight 2.0

Source Code Search Engine’s Enhancements Include Faster Search, Indexing and Advanced Filtering Capability to Boost Productivity for Developers and Enterprises

Waltham, Mass., October 26, 2011 – Black Duck Software, the leader in open source software knowledge, adoption and governance, today announced significant enhancements to its Code Sight™ source code search engine that dramatically boosts productivity for individual developers and global enterprise development organizations. Black Duck Code Sight 2.0 is a scalable source code search engine that indexes code across an enterprise and version control systems to provide developers with fast, easy access and visibility into code resources.

Code Sight 2.0 enhancements include the following:

• Search performance –searches a larger code base faster
• Indexing performance – four to six times faster indexing
• Advanced filtering techniques:
  • Enhanced user interface allows developers to quickly narrow search results based on relevant metadata
  • Aggregate filtering across projects and enterprise-wide, combined with advanced search and segmentation capabilities, provides deep insight for unlocking hidden code resources
• Enhanced administration:
  • Enterprise-ready with LDAP support
  • Ability to assign roles, for example, designating an “indexer” for a group
  • Customizable permission levels by user groups or individuals, including authorization and authentication features
  • Support for both the Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems

“We implemented Black Duck Code Sight to enable project members to become productive users of the Bank’s existing code base,” said Gert Gregers Christiansen, senior system administrator, Saxo Bank. “With real time IDE and browser-based search, our development teams have greatly increased their understanding and reuse of internal code.”

Ecosystem Support and Scalability
With industry-leading ecosystem support, Code Sight can be accessed from a web browser, the Eclipse development environment, or Microsoft Visual Studio. It can index code from a dozen version control systems including Git, Mercurial, Subversion, AccuRev, ClearCase (IBM), Perforce, TFS (Microsoft), and others. The Code Sight server runs on the Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Code Sight is designed for the specific needs of individual developers and enterprise organizations, and can scale to meet changing requirements. Three offerings are available: a Free Personal Edition, Free Team Edition and Enterprise Edition. Learn more about Black Duck Code Sight at http://www.blackducksoftware.com/code-sight.

“Code Sight 2.0 enables developers to build better code faster by providing new ways to explore and understand internally-developed code,” said Jim Berets, vice president of product management, Black Duck Software. “This encourages code and knowledge sharing. Developers spend a lot of time searching through code, for reasons ranging from bug fixing to finding code to reuse. Code Sight 2.0 gives developers a tool that delivers targeted, relevant results quickly.”

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of strategy, 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-solution and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, compliance and security challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and Ohloh.net, the largest free public directory of open source software and a vibrant web community of free and open source software developers and users. Black Duck is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

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Sarah Gerrol
Black Duck Software
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+1 781-891-5100

Ann Dalrymple
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Black Duck Software Launches “Open Source Delivers” Blog

New Blog Features Expert Commentary Regarding the Global Adoption and Enablement of Open Source Software

Waltham, Mass., October 18, 2011 – Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of strategy, products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, announced the launch of the Open Source Delivers blog at www.opensourcedelivers.com. The new blog features expert insights, trends and commentary by leading influencers and thought leaders from around the world dedicated to enabling adoption of open source software.

Current contributors include Claus von Riegen, SAP AG; Gil Yehuda, Yahoo!; Ian Skerrett, Eclipse Foundation; Robert Blasi, Goodwin Procter LLP; Erynn Petersen, AOL; and Steve O’Grady, RedMonk, among others

“Our primary goal is to create an exciting and vibrant dialogue around the issues, trends and innovations enabling wider adoption of open source software by organizations, developers and their communities,” said Tim Yeaton, Black Duck’s president and CEO, in his inaugural post on Open Source Delivers. “We hope this site will serve as a hub of expert commentary for open source influencers dedicated to innovation in today’s multi-source development environment.”

Call for Open Source Delivers Contributors
Open Source Delivers is seeking contributors. Contact Sarah Gerrol (sgerrol@blackducksoftware.com) or Megan DeGruttola (mdegruttola@blackducksoftware.com) for more information. You can also reach out via Twitter @black_duck_sw.

Tweet this: @black_duck_sw seeks contributors to Open Source Delivers Blog. Please reply to nominate yourself & other thought leaders.

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of strategy, 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-solution and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, compliance and security challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and Ohloh.net, the largest free public directory of open source software and a vibrant web community of free and open source software developers and users. Black Duck is among the 400 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

Press Contacts

Sarah Gerrol
Black Duck Software
press@blackducksoftware.com
+1 781-891-5100

Ann Dalrymple
Topaz Partners
adalrymple@topazpartners.com
+1 781-404-2432