Tim Yeaton, CEO of Blackduck Software, spent some time with me recently providing an update on what his company is doing. It was good to have a few moments to catch up with Tim. We have been acquaintances for quite some time. We worked together at Digital Equipment Corporation. I was involved in X86/UNIX and he was involved with RISC/UNIX efforts for the company. He went on to lead several startups and was recently Red Hat's CMO.
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software in multi-source development at enterprise scale. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-solution and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with using open source software.
Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices across the U.S., Europe and Asia, and has distribution partners throughout the world.
It is clear that this is an area in which many need help.
Does your organization use open source technologies? What is your organization doing to track the use of this technology? What steps are you taking to create a proper audit trail?