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Composite development a suite spot for Black Duck


By David Rubinstein
March 20, 2009 — 
Moving to provide more enterprise-type capabilities to development teams, Black Duck Software, in a matter of “days to weeks,” will release its first suite of tools that enable the use of open-source and other components in software projects.

Called simply the Black Duck Suite, it is made up of the company’s Protex, Code Center and Export products, along with the search functionality gained from the company’s acquisition of Koders, all sitting atop the Black Duck KnowledgeBase catalog of more than 200,000 open-source projects.

Protex controls how software assets are introduced into a development project to ensure that licenses or governance policies are not being violated; Code Center is a catalog of reusable components; and Export provides encryption compliance management. Koders is a search engine that has been called “Google for code” that developers can use to locate specific pieces of code within the catalog.

The result enables development teams to search and select components, check them for security or licensing issues, drive the approval process, and catalog them for use and reuse, according to product management vice president Jim Berets. Finally, the suite also enables ongoing validation and monitoring after the components are deployed.

The suite is not only for open-source components; it will allow organizations to look at their own components, to track what’s being used and where, and to enforce policies regarding the use of those components, Berets added. “We want to make it easy for developers to use open source within their organization and to enable a multi-source development environment,” he said.

The suite also includes an SDK that developers can use to build the Black Duck tools into their SCM systems or IDEs, Berets said.

The idea behind the suite was to take Black Duck’s broad knowledge of open source and open-source components and “bring it upstream into the development process,” said Tim Yeaton, the company’s new president and CEO. Yeaton joined the company in early February, taking the position vacated by founder Doug Levin. Previously, Yeaton had worked at Red Hat, and he was one of the drivers behind that company’s move into the development market with the acquisition of JBoss and a partnership with Exadel.

“The componentization of application development is an inexorable march,” Yeaton said. “And the strong adoption of agile methods and iterative development has created a greater need for integration.”

Yeaton said that Black Duck showed year-over-year growth of 42% at the end of 2008, and it also raised US$9.5 million in investment funding to get “the power we need to power through this recession.”


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