Open Source as a Strategic Business Enabler Webinar With Black Duck Software, Highlighting SAP Case Study Tuesday, May 11 at 11:

WALTHAM, Mass., May 5, 2010- Black Duck Software (www.blackducksoftware.com), a leading provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software (OSS), will hold a webinar describing how its customer SAP AG uses the Black Duck Suite to manage the increasing use of open source software.

SAP, the world's leading provider of business software, maintains its market position by focusing on continuous product innovation. Open source software has helped the company's 15,000 software developers increase the speed of innovation and spurred development productivity, also yielding improvements in interoperability and standardization.

In this webinar Black Duck Software (www.blackducksoftware.com), together with representatives of SAP, will review the benefits open source offers to development organizations, the management challenges it presents, and approaches for addressing those challenges. SAP will describe how its use of open source evolved from managing open source as an exception, to making it an integral part of the company's multi-source development approach, to becoming the third-largest corporate code contributor to the Eclipse Foundation. The webinar will conclude with an interactive question-and-answer session.

Join Black Duck Software, along with SAP, as they discuss the benefits of using open source as a strategic business enabler and review the management, policy and process aspects of succeeding with open source software in a multi-source development environment.

About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges associated with 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, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, California, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

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