Black Duck Boosts Suite Usability and Performance with Enhancements to Protex
Protex 5.1 offers improved search and performance for large enterprise code sets, builds on expanded KnowledgeBase
WALTHAM, Mass., February 10, 2010 - Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, today announced enhancements to Protex, the code analysis engine that is a core component of the Black Duck Suite, a comprehensive platform for managing the use of open source in a multi-source development process.
Protex version 5.1, available immediately, provides faster, more precise code search capability with significant performance boosts. Enhancements include:
- Faster- for enterprise users running code scans and analysis on very large data sets, performance enhancements will speed searches on computer-intensive activities - such as calculating a Bill of Materials for a complex software application - by up to a factor of five.
- Improved search - The Protex 5.1 Advanced Search function, based on Lucene 2.9, offers the ability to use leading wildcard characters and allows improved query structure. Named searches can now be 250 characters in length.
- KnowledgeBase enhancements to the Suite include 10,000 new projects, 600 new sites and over 300 new open source licenses. This version also shows release dates for projects allowing users to more easily match their code with a specific release. With the most comprehensive KnowledgeBase in the industry, customers have increased confidence in the code analysis results versus competitive offerings.
“Enhancements to the Protex 5.1 module of the Black Duck Suite significantly improve productivity and speed of analysis,” said Bill McQuaide, EVP of Products and Strategy, Black Duck Software. “Unlike other code analysis tools, the Suite can quickly search and analyze enterprise-scale code bases comprised of hundreds of megabytes of code. For our enterprise customers - the majority of whom have chosen the Black Duck Suite - the performance and search support enhancements provide a distinct competitive advantage.”
For more information on Protex 5.1 and the Black Duck Suite visit www.blackducksoftware.com.
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 Francisco, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong, as well as distribution partners throughout the world. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.
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