What's In Your Code?

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we're getting ready for two industry events that should generate a lot of interest - OSCON is this week, and Linux World in San Francisco after that.

We're announcing two agreements to extend our reach into the open source world - one with Eclipse and one with SourceForge.

I'm pleased with both - Eclipse because it will give us a chance to be part of the software development process directly, and SourceForge because it will greatly expand our compliance database.

We've been working with SourceForge already -and have had our databases linked electronically for several months. I have been amazed by the amount of information that they deliver to us daily. Gigabytes/day. There is obviously a lot of work going on within the SourceForge environment.

Back Again

I've been away for a while... business travel, hiring people for Palamida, just getting busier...one of the hazards of blogging. A quick observation from my travels - the level of awareness and interest in actively managing IP integrity is growing quickly. I had suspected it might be centered mostly with ISVs for a while, but it seems clear now that equipment manufacturers are serious (they should be, given the amount of software in most devices), and enterprise IT groups are kicking off projects as well.

This article quoting IDC tends to confirm what I see directly...that the issue of IP integrity has hit the radar screens of IT organizations, and they are looking to software vendors as primary stakeholders in terms of managing this issue.

On another topic...we're a sponsor of OSCON, August 1-5 in Portland. I'll be there along with others from the Palamida crew, and we would enjoy meeting any of you who are there as well.

Palamida on Slashdot this morning

Good discussion on Slashdot... And James has some good remarks over at Redmonk - he's right that compliance is too limiting a term to describe this new software space. This is as much about furthering the use of open source as it is about doing due dilligence and compliance.

Congrats to the Team...

Palamida's IP AMPlifier entered general availability today. That's great news for the team - they have put so much effort creating what is arguably the hottest product in this emerging segment of the software market. It's also great news for our beta customers that have been so enthusiastically embracing the product. You can read more in the news release.

We’re in a phase change from ad-hoc, in-house tools to commercial products in this space and IP AMPlifier delivers the industry’s fastest search and reporting against the world’s largest compliance database, reducing software compliance efforts from weeks to hours. We're now searching a compliance database in excess of 38 million files.

 Mark over at Gartner said it well:

"The sheer volume of software code in use at the average enterprise company today creates a profound need for a solution that automates the process of software intellectual property detection and identification. The right solution will help companies establish a competitive advantage by accelerating the use of third-party components and open source software free from the inefficiencies of manual methods of software license and IP verification." - Mark Driver - Gartner