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- Levin out as Black Duck's CEO
- Black Duck Software -- a pioneer in the open source legal consulting business -- has lost its CEO. On Thursday, Douglas Levin, the company founder and a director at the Waltham, Mass.-based company, announced his resignation, effective Sept. 1. The announcement came the same day that...
- Tags: Black Duck Software, CEO, Corporate Governance, Open Source, E-mail, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- What software classes owe each other
- Over the Christmas holiday my high-school age son had to read Sumner's "What Social Classes Owe Each Other." The answer, he said, was "simple respect." The same may apply to software, according to Black Duck CEO and blogger  Doug Lewin Levin right. ...
- Tags: Software, Growth, Black Duck Software, Black Duck, Lewin Levin, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
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- At what stage of life is the open source industry?
- At what stage of life is the open source industry?First, you must define "open source".My point is many think open source is the GPL and Linux, in my opinion that is not true and "open source" is what we passed around in the local computer clubs two or three decades...
- Tags: open source, stage-of-life, open-source industry
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- News to know: Yahoo CFO; Oracle's Java; iPhone 3G S specs; EC2 outage
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Yahoo names Tim Morse as new CFO Larry Dignan: Can Oracle give Java a boost (and...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Java, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Black Duck pushing open source health IT solutions
- Many practices don't pursue open source solutions because their business is complex and learning the software can be hard. Tkfp admits this on its Sourceforge page. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, Tkfp, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- News to know: Botnets; Adobe patch day; NetApp; Craigslist
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: Inside the botnets that never make the news - a gallery Images: Inside the botnets that never make the news right ...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NetApp Inc., Craigslist, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., Robots, GPS, Document Management, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Black Duck calls Microsoft open source mainstream
- Black Duck calls Microsoft open source mainstreamI don't know about you.......but Codeplex seems to have a long way to go to be as big or important as Sourceforge. 9,000 projects vs 230,000. I think I read that Google Code had around 50,000 a while back and they started off after...
- Tags: Java development tools, Stillborn, Silverlight.net, CodePlex, Microsoft Corp., SourceForge, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- What does open source community mean?
- What does open source community mean?Too much thought on companies.......not enough on individual efforts. I think some folk get too caught up in the business aspect of it all and forget the root. I use plenty of FOSS tools that are backed by no large corporate entity. They may sometimes...
- Tags: open source, F/OSS, developer, open-source community, joy
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- How open source got its wings
- How open source got its wingsopen source goes mission criticalThis story is another proof point that software development organizations can integrate open source into mission critical applications. In this case, open source broke the development log jam and helped the Air Force complete the project in less than a...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2009-04-17
- The $22 billion open source stimulus package
- The $22 billion open source stimulus packageBlackDuck????Are you kidding?22 Billion dollars lost in OSS fiddlingSee I can make up numbers too!Really, quoting numbers from an OSS vendor is hardly worth a headline.The problem with all this drivel is that some people actually believe it and more money goes into a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, open source, Linux, open source stimulu, Linux POS
- Discussion threads 2009-04-15
- How does In-Stat predict mobile open source domination
- How does In-Stat predict mobile open source dominationOpen Source will win in MobileIt is difficult to predict how open source will fair against the iPhone and other closed platforms. Android, one of the open source platforms, has only been available since October 2008. In a survey Black Duck conducted of...
- Tags: open source, Apple iPhone, mobile
- Discussion threads 2009-03-30
- Microsoft: Economy putting a damper on migrations to and from open source
- Microsoft: Economy putting a damper on migrations to and from open sourceWhat can they say?No doubt they are seeing very flat sales at best, and this is simply part of the "get wall street ready" series where they will purport that EVERYTHING is down. That said, their study is...
- Tags: open source, Microsoft Corp., damper, migration, International Data Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-24
- News to know: Pwn2Own; Windows advice; Palm; JavaFX
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Ed Burnette: Java gets a mobile makeover with JavaFX Mobile Ryan Naraine: Pwn2Own hacker contest targets browsers, smart...
- Tags: JavaFX, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Taxes, Microsoft Windows, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Software As A Service (SaaS), Operating Systems, Financial Planning, Finance, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- Happy days for Black Duck
- So let's hear it for the little black duck. Black Duck Software. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- Free Software Foundation calls Cisco a leech, in court
- Free Software Foundation calls Cisco a leech, in courtDavid RavicherSurely, you mean Dan Ravicher? Unless he has a secret brother whom he's hired to work with him at SFLC.This is a test case ...Cisco understands the ramifications of what they're doing. There have been numerous rumors that Cisco plans to...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Katzer, GPL, Cisco Systems Inc., Free Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2008-12-12
- Google fatal flaw revealed
- Google fatal flaw revealedThose patches could for example broke something else.Seriously, I wouldn't post an accusation like "google fatal flaw" based on the words of some vice president of marketing who's selling "products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code" (the...
- Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc., fatal flaw, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- News to know: Storm; AMD, Intel; Tech economy reels
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Josh Taylor: Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm availability, pricing Larry Dignan: AMD unveils ‘Shanghai’; Aims to better compete with Intel AMD: Does the resurrection start...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Best Buy Co. Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Shanghai, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Koders.com: Ruby as programmers choice?
- Open-source is what keeps most of the world ticking over. We've got open-source running on super computers, stock exchanges, schools and educational instutitions. The enterprise is where it's heading to now, if not already, as a cheaper alternative to heavy software licences. After data was released on...
- Tags: Open Source, Ruby, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- News to know: Limelight's Olympics; Software prices; Wordcamp 2008; Windows 7 Server
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet Larry Dignan: Limelight by the numbers: Akamai’s thorn? Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Server, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Semantic Web, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Pravda, Sutor, and IBM Linux
- Pravda, Sutor, and IBM LinuxWrong!At it again are we?Paul get your facts straight before you try to be the same failure as that fraud.Yes the U2 crashed because it used a jet engine who was held together by good intentions and bailing wire.But regarding Linux, you are still wrong. Linux...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Utility computing, Linux, IBM Corp., Unix, duck, IBM Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-08-09
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