Black Duck Named to SD Times 100

Black Duck Software has been named to the 2008 SD Times 100 and we are honored to be included on this prestigious list and to be recognized as a company meeting the ever- expanding and ever-evolving needs of developers worldwide. The list recognizes the leaders, innovators and influencers in software development. Black Duck was honored in the Tools category, which acknowledges companies that help developers “churn out functional and usable code.”

In short, at Black Duck we help developers, attorneys and company management work together – especially on a geographically distributed basis -- to find, select and use open source and third party components. This results in greater efficiencies.

Alan Zeichick, Editorial Director of BZ Media's SD Times, said "The software development industry is led by innovation. When choosing the 2008 SD Times 100, we carefully considered each organization’s products and services, reputation with development managers, and the new ideas and thought leadership that it has brought to the industry. Thanks to the SD Times 100 winners, like Black Duck, the art and science of software development continues to advance at a rapid pace."

SD Times is written for software development managers, has more than 60,000 subscribers in more than 131 countries.

Corporate Application Development in NA & Europe

Summary from Forrester Research survey of 526 North American and 270 European companies (multiple responses accepted)

“For custom-developed applications, which development platforms do you use?”

	N.A. %	Europe %
Microsoft .NET	68%	52%
Mainframe or midrange platforms	45%	34%
Proprietary 4GLs	27%	19%
Java, Java EE, J2EE	48%	47%
Rich interface in a browser	38%	36%
Open Source frameworks	15%	16%

Source: Forrester Research, Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q3 2007