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Summaries of open source, health care, or health IT news and information from various sources on the web selected by Open Health News (OHNews) staff. Links are provided to the original news or information source, e.g. news article, web site, journal,blog, video, etc.

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Black Duck & North Bridge Announce Eighth Annual Future Of Open Source Survey

Press Release | Black Duck Software | February 5, 2014

Black Duck Software, the trusted partner for open source software adoption, management and governance, and North Bridge Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm, today announced the launch of the eighth annual Future of Open Source Survey. Read More »

Black Duck Adds New Community Choice Open Source Rookie Of The Year Award

Press Release | Black Duck Software | December 16, 2013

Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of strategy, products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, today announced the addition of a Community Choice award to its open source new project recognition program, the Open Source Rookies of the Year. Read More »

Black Duck Announces Ohloh Enhancements Providing New Visibility Into Open Source Activities Affiliated With Organizations, Expanded Code Search Capabilities

Press Release | Black Duck | October 25, 2012

Black Duck Software today announced enhancements to Ohloh, the world's most comprehensive developer resource for evaluating and tracking open source projects, contributors and code. Read More »

Black Duck Announces Open Source Think Tank Speakers, Sponsors

Press Release | Black Duck Software | March 14, 2014

Black Duck Software...today announced additional details for its ninth annual Open Source Think Tank 2014 event, taking place March 24-26 in Napa, CA. The invitation-only conference, focusing on the theme “Open Source – Engine of Innovation,” will feature a case study on the Internet of Things. Led by an executive panel, this year’s case study will take an in-depth look at the challenges of preserving openness in IoT. Read More »

Black Duck Fully Integrates Open Source Consulting Capabilities

Press Release | Black Duck Software | October 15, 2013

Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of strategy, products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, today announced the full integration of the Olliance Group – now known as Black Duck Consulting – into the company. [...] Read More »

Black Duck Opens up Ohloh.net, Launches Beta Code Search Capability

Mandira Srivastava | infoTECH | July 20, 2012

Continuing with their investment in developer resources built to accelerate the development and adoption of free and open source software (FOSS), Black Duck Software (News - Alert) has made significant updates to Ohloh.net, a comprehensive online directory of open source projects, contributors and code. Read More »

Black Duck Software & North Bridge Launch Ninth Annual Future of Open Source Survey

Press Release | Black Duck Software, North Bridge Partners | February 6, 2015

Black Duck Software...and North Bridge Partners...today announced the launch of the ninth annual Future of Open Source Survey. As an annual assessment of the state of the open source industry and analysis of future trends, the survey reflects the insights of open source software (OSS) industry leaders and collaborating organizations, and is open to participation from the technology community. Read More »

Black Duck Software CEO Tim Yeaton Rejoins Red Hat To Lead Newly-Formed Infrastructure Group

Press Release | Red Hat | January 6, 2014

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Tim Yeaton, former chief executive officer of Black Duck Software and a onetime Red Hat executive, has rejoined Red Hat in the newly-created position of senior vice president, Infrastructure Group. Read More »

Black Duck Software Named To SD Times 100 For Sixth Consecutive Year

Press Release | Black Duck Software | June 10, 2013

Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of strategy, products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, today announced it has been named to the SD Times 100 for the sixth consecutive year. Read More »

Black Duck Software On IPO Path, Though Possible Acquirers Abound

Kyle Alspach | Boston Business Journal | September 4, 2013

Burlington-based open-source software specialist Black Duck Software is "one or two years behind" recently public Rally Software, both in terms of revenue growth and IPO plans, Black Duck CEO Tim Yeaton said in an interview. Read More »

Black Duck Software Reports Record Q2 Sales, Third Largest Quarter in Company History

Press Release | Black Duck Software | July 13, 2012

Black Duck Software, the trusted partner for open source software adoption, management, and governance, today reported that Q2 was a record quarter for sales and the third largest sales quarter in the company's history, driven by a 62 percent growth in new subscriptions. Read More »

Black Duck Unlocks $59B Opportunity For Enterprises Using Open Source

Press Release | Black Duck Software | July 16, 2013

As enterprises increase their utilization of open source software (OSS) to accelerate development innovation and drive down costs, the importance of having up-front visibility into OSS licenses and their associated obligations takes on even greater importance. Read More »

Black Duck's Dave Gruber And Peter Vescuso: Open Source Is Maturing

Jack Germain | LinuxInsider | March 19, 2013

Mentioning open source to a typical consumer will no doubt result in puzzled looks or a reference to that "free stuff." Even in some business circles, the open source concept may only be synonymous with an alternative computer operating system known as Linux. Read More »

Blackboard Buys into Open Source

Joseph Thibault | OpenSource.com | March 28, 2012

To be honest, I wasn't completely shocked that Blackboard stepped into the Moodle ring in a major way on Monday...What Blackboard has done is position itself to grow its list of services and extend the shelf life for its current LMS customers (especially the ones that were slowly edging their way towards another LMS) while shoring up its client base and reach. Read More »

Blind Ambition: Plea for Funds to Keep Free Software Project Alive

Sylvia Pennington | Brisbane Times | March 16, 2012

Two Australian programmers may be forced to abandon their not-for-profit work that allows blind people around the world to join in social networks and the information age if funding is not forthcoming. Read More »