The Compliance Vanguard Alliance is a new affiliation of companies organized to help enterprise organizations understand the important compliance issues related to proper use of open source code and applications. The Compliance Vanguard Alliance, spearheaded by Black Duck, includes as charter members a team of open source software industry leaders, including EnterpriseDB, Funambol, GroundWork and JasperSoft.

Through a series of programs, webinars and events, the Black Duck Compliance Vanguard Alliance will educate companies on harnessing the full value of today’s software development paradigms while mitigating the risks associated with those models.

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At DevZuz the mission is to redefine the economics of enterprise application development, by accelerating product life cycles and decreasing time to market, through the adoption of the leading technologies and development practices of today's open source projects. DevZuz provides the delivery platform for open source projects and processes -- offering enterprises a single source for both client-side tooling and a hosted, server-side library, which allows enterprises to search for, evaluate, and manage the ongoing adoption of open-source technologies.




EnterpriseDB produces the award-winning EnterpriseDB relational database management system (RDBMS). An enterprise-class RDBMS that is based on PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database, EnterpriseDB runs many Oracle applications unchanged, performs better than native PostgreSQL and is priced to reflect its open source heritage.




With over 750,000 downloads, Funambol is the world's largest mobile open source project. Funambol's mobile application server is the leading open source implementation of SyncML, and the company's mission is to provide BlackBerry-like capabilities for mass market wireless handsets.




GroundWork is the leader in mission-critical IT Operations Management software built on open source, with hundreds of customers and thousands of installations.





JasperSoft is the leading supplier of commercial open source business intelligence solutions. Building on its earlier successful commercial and open source reporting solutions, JasperSoft has extended its reach into business intelligence, giving its customers the choice of a commercial or open source business intelligence suite. JasperSoft operational reporting products enable companies to place precise operational information into the hands of decision makers.