Based on the experience of hundreds of companies using FOSS as part of a multisource development process, the following are 10 proven tips to gain control, drive innovation, and lower costs with the use of FOSS in your IT development organization. The use of free and open source software has gone mainstream in enterprise IT
Android – Opportunity, Complexity, and Abundance Android, the first mobile operating system built on open source is being adopted by a multitude of embedded device manufacturers. However combining open source with closed source code raises potential legal and business risks. This common problem for any ISV or embedded organisation is exacerbated by Android’s parallel development
Compliments of Black Duck, The Development Executive’s Guide to Open Source Software Policy Implementation will tell you all you need to know about implementing OSS policies without slowing down your development efforts. You’ll learn how to automate OSS policy implementation to stay productive, eliminate legal risk, and find the best open source software for each
Find out how Intel Corporation, a leader in semiconductor manufacturing and software development, reduces software rework and mitigates business risk by using Black Duck Protex to validate that open source, 3rd party and internal software usage strictly adheres to Intel’s software licensing policies.
This whitepaper draws on the experiences of the Black Duck Software team, our customers, and other industry experts to propose new approaches to managing intellectual property in this new world. It describes a set of Best Practices that companies can use to avoid the risks and gain the benefits of this promising new approach to
Are you looking to gain control over open source software usage in your IT development organization while enabling your developers to get the most out of open source? Now you can see how IT executives in top companies have gained management control over the externally-sourced code used by their application development groups. Without slowing the