Press Release
CollabNet and Black Duck Software form alliance
Enables Globally Distributed Development Teams to Better Manage License and Intellectual Property Compliance
WALTHAM, Mass and BRISBANE, Calif., February 01, 2005 — Black Duck Software, the leading provider of software compliance management solutions, and CollabNet, the leading provider of on demand distributed software development solutions, today announced they have formed a technology and marketing alliance to help reduce intellectual property risks associated with software development.
As development teams become more geographically and organizationally distributed, managing license compliance becomes increasingly complex. As a result of the alliance announced today, global software teams using open source components within CollabNet® Enterprise Edition 3.0 will be able to establish and manage corporate licensing policies and catch and resolve intellectual property issues with Black Duck’s protexIP™/development solution. The Black Duck compliance management solution alongside the CollabNet applications for software development, project management, knowledge management, communication management, and project administration provides the most comprehensive development environment for global teams concerned with protecting intellectual property.
"Two major trends are fundamentally changing software development for enterprises – distributed teams and open source software," said Douglas A. Levin, CEO of Black Duck. "Our alliance with CollabNet lets us help global development communities to better share code and incorporate open source software into their critical applications, while managing the origins and obligations of the associated intellectual property."
"CollabNet is seeing more and more corporations adopting open source, and often adapting it into the core of their own application development efforts," said Brian Behlendorf, founder and CTO of CollabNet and a founder of the Apache Software Foundation. "Our alliance with Black Duck will enable us to provide our customers with license compliance and awareness during the application development cycle, allowing distributed teams to productively use open source software while avoiding costly mistakes."
With CollabNet, corporations reduce cost, increase revenue, and capture market loyalty by uniting distributed teams, offshore vendors, or key business partners across the entire application development lifecycle, regardless of geographic location. Black Duck Software helps businesses expand their use of open source software by providing products and services that bring developers, lawyers, and business decision-makers together and enable them to understand and safely manage software licensing compliance.
Together, the companies will enable CIOs, information technology and business executives, project managers, marketers, lawyers, and developers to deliver software predictably while automatically managing license compliance and avoiding intellectual property issues. The Black Duck-CollabNet alliance will enhance the efficiency of distributed development teams tapping the open source model to result in improved development processes and shorter application lifecycles.
