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Black Duck's protexIP Software Compliance Management Suite Achieves ''Ready for IBM Rational software'' Validation.


LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.  -- Black Duck Software, Inc., a leading provider of software compliance management solutions, today announced that its protexIP(TM)/development solution has been validated "Ready for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries)  Rational Software." The Black Duck solution will now be available as a plug-in to the Eclipse-based IBM Rational Software Development Platform.

By using protexIP with IBM Rational Application Developer This article is about the IBM Rational IDE, formerly IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD). For the gaming keyboard configuration, see WASD

IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software
, customers can automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation.  key intellectual property (IP) management and license compliance functions. The Black Duck plug-in makes these critical facets of open source and component reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity.  an integral part of the development process, rather than an afterthought af·ter·thought  
n.
An idea, response, or explanation that occurs to one after an event or decision.


afterthought
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. Black Duck is presenting its protexIP suite of products in Booth #519 at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2005.

"Through this validation, Black Duck's innovative solutions will be accessible to the developers using the IBM Rational Software Development Platform," said Doug Levin lev·in  
n. Archaic
Lightning.



[Middle English levene, levin; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.]
, Black Duck's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Our protexIP line will complement the IBM Rational Software Development Platform with intelligent, enterprise-class functions that automate the process of identifying and managing licensing obligations for software assets. This gives development teams a new way to be more productive by leveraging open source and reusing components - without fear of compromising their organization's valuable intellectual property."

"Ready for IBM Rational software" is an offering through which IBM Business Partner products are validated for integration with the IBM Rational Software Development Platform.

Black Duck's powerful software compliance management capabilities support open source, proprietary and commercial code. The Company's protexIP suite of solutions enables enterprises to identify, track and manage license compliance obligations for software, internally across business units and externally with partners, suppliers, and communities. Now companies can achieve the productivity benefits they desire from sharing and reusing code without losing control of their valuable intellectual property.

About Black Duck Software

Black Duck Software(TM) is the leading provider of software compliance management solutions that help companies govern how software assets are created, managed, and licensed. Black Duck's offerings help businesses take maximum advantage of open source software while at the same time assure they satisfy the obligations associated with the code they use. Black Duck's customer base includes enterprises, product developers, outsourcers, law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
  1. Clifford Chance, £1,030.2m – International law firm (headquartered in the UK);
  2. Linklaters, £935.
 and other organizations worldwide that are concerned with protection of software intellectual property. For more information about Black Duck, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

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