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Black Duck Announces Ohloh Enhancements Providing New Visibility Into Open Source Activities Affiliated With Organizations, Expanded Code Search Capabilities

Press Release | Black Duck | October 25, 2012

Black Duck Software today announced enhancements to Ohloh, the world's most comprehensive developer resource for evaluating and tracking open source projects, contributors and code. Read More »

Black Duck Announces Open Source Rookies of the Year Winners

Press Release | Black Duck Software | January 28, 2014

Sixth Annual Open Source Rookies Award Recognizes Most Outstanding Projects of 2013; Winners Reflect Interest in Cloud, Internet of Things, Security

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Black Duck Software Announces Next Generation OSS Logistics Solution to Manage and Optimize Open Source

Press Release | Black Duck Software | June 26, 2014

Black Duck Software, the leading OSS Logistics solutions provider enabling the adoption and management of open source software (OSS), today announced the release of Black Duck ® Suite 7 software that helps companies maximize the benefits of open source while managing the associated operational, legal, and security risks. Read More »

Current State of Android Mobile Apps and mHealth Projects

According to data just released by Black Duck Software, development of new Android mobile projects have expanded by no less than 96% each year since 2007. See their chart showing cumulative growth for Android versus Apple iOS projects from 2007-2012 at Read More »

Eclipse and Java: An Open Source Trend Analysis

Bill McQuaide | Open Source Delivers | January 12, 2012

2011 was a banner year for the open source community, especially for the Eclipse Foundation, which celebrated its 10th anniversary. In that vein, I decided to look at 2011 open source project trends and compare them to popular Eclipse projects. Read More »

Giant Robots and Open Source

Mark Gibbs | Computerworld | August 1, 2012

Do you use Open Source Software (OSS)? If you do you are probably aware of the various types of OSS licenses and terms in those licenses that your organization needs to be able to square away with organizational policies and industry regulations. But which OSS packages do you use? Read More »

How Open Source Development Is Becoming More Social

Tim Yeaton | Mashable Tech | September 28, 2011

Most people do not think of software developers as being high on the “social” scale. In fact, the (misinformed) stereotype for a typical developer is that of the introverted geek. But in many ways, particularly with open source developers, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Read More »

Ohloh Wants to Fill the Gap Left by Google Code Search

Klint Finley | TechCrunch | July 20, 2012

Google Code Search, introduced in 2006 was meant to make it easy to search for open source code no matter where it’s stored, but Google recently pulled the plug on the service this year. The team at Black Duck hopes its recently relaunched Ohloh site will fill that gap. Read More »

Oldest Open-Source Software Kept By Army

Joyce Conant | LeavenworthTimes.com | December 6, 2012

Since 1938, the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., was the center for the United States Army's research efforts in ballistics and vulnerability/lethality analysis. That remained the case until 1992, when BRL was disestablished and its mission, personnel and facilities were incorporated into the newly created U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Read More »

Oldies But Goodies: Seven Projects Still Rocking Open Source

Dave Gruber | Open Source Delivers | October 2, 2012

We all get excited about the latest hot open source projects like CloudStack and Boot to Gecko — they’re new and exciting and the possibilities seem endless.  But what about the many long-running projects that have been core to the world of open source for decades? The ones that have truly stood the test of time? Read More »

The 10 oldest, significant open-source programs

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | January 13, 2013

Does open-source software still seem "new" to you? Think again, its roots go back decades. Read More »