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News Open Country Brings Critical IT Systems Management Capability To New Black Duck Compliance Vanguard
News Open Country Brings Critical IT Systems Management Capability To New Black Duck Compliance Vanguard
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| New Alliance Helps Enterprises Maximize Business Potential of Open
Source Code; Open Country's OCM Suite Makes
Tools, Systems More Efficient at All Stages of App Development
BELMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Open Country, a next-generation systems management software company, today announced that it has become a charter member of the Black Duck Compliance Vanguard Alliance, a powerful new initiative aimed at helping enterprises better manage the compliance issues associated with the use of open source code. As a charter member of the Alliance, a group spearheaded by Black Duck and incorporating other leading open source industry leaders, Open Country will offer enterprises critical IT systems management tools that will improve the efficiency of their development platforms before, during and after application development. Open Country's OCM IT management suite gives organizations a simple, affordable solution for provisioning, managing, monitoring, and maintaining Linux-based servers, desktops, blades and appliances. OCM, a highly scalable product, is highly effective at all stages of the software development process, helping companies to streamline OS deployments, assure consistency and repeatability across development and production platforms, and much more. The Black Duck Compliance Vanguard Alliance, initiated by Black Duck, the leading global provider of software compliance management solutions, intends to help enterprises harness the full value of today's software development paradigms while mitigating the risks associated with those models. Because application development often involves assembling code components from many points of origin, including open source and proprietary sources, licensing and other business issues are often raised. The Compliance Vanguard Alliance will educate companies on mitigating those risks through the proper use of open source code during the complete application development lifecycle. "Open Country enables enterprises to manage the vast array of machines that run open source code, and for that reason, our customers are very much at the forefront in incorporating open source into their enterprise IT," said Laurent Gharda, President and CEO, Open Country. "We're often asked about general pitfalls of using Linux and open source solutions across an enterprise. By being a part of the Compliance Vanguard, we can point our customers to a central group that can explain the pitfalls, letting them capitalize on the benefits." "More and more companies are incorporating open source code into their software development processes and are enjoying the benefits, and these companies need to understand the inherent risks related to Open Source Software," said Douglas Levin, CEO of Black Duck Software. "The Black Duck Compliance Vanguard Alliance program will teach companies how to mitigate the risks and fully capitalize on the hybrid model for building applications. Each charter member of the alliance is a leader in its respective market, and together we offer a huge brain trust of knowledge about open source promises and pitfalls." Besides Black Duck and Open Country, other charter members of the Compliance Vanguard Alliance include EnterpriseDB, Funambol, GroundWork, JasperSoft, Krugle and OpenLogic. To learn more about the Black Duck Compliance Vanguard Alliance, visit www.blackducksoftware.com/vanguard. About Open Country: Open Country helps organizations significantly simplify the management of existing enterprise Linux systems. The majority of IT costs involve repeated problem solving across the enterprise or from one enterprise to the next. Open Country enables IT managers to solve a problem once and effectively leverage the solutions across the organization. Open Country's OCMTM Universal Systems Management Suite supports the largest number of Linux distributions in the industry. By eliminating "lock-in" to one software platform, Open Country OCMTM helps customers choose the best and most cost-effective options to power their enterprises. Open Country is based in Belmont, Calif., and can also be found at www.opencountry.com. ©2006 Copyright, Open Country. All Rights Reserved. Black Duck Software is a registered trademark of Black Duck Software, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Contacts S&S Public Relations, Inc. Steve Simon, 847-955-0700 ext. 9347 steve@sspr.com
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