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.
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