9. History Founded in 2001 - acquired by Black Duck 12/31/2011 Mission: To help clients capitalize on the strategic, technological, and financial benefits of open source. The leading open source business and strategy consulting firm. 500 projects to date for more than 150 clients Founder and host of the Open Source Think Tank Black Duck Software – the “multi-source” enablement company, serving more than 850 customers in 22 countries. Black Duck enables enterprises to fully realize the compelling benefits of using FOSS components in development, while mitigating the risks and challenges. 4
21. Quality, faster development time, reliabilityForrester Research (Jeff Hammond, LinuxCon, Aug. 10, 2010) “When it comes to Enterprise IT adoption, Open Source Has ‘Crossed the Chasm’” 79% of IT developers use open source in their development projects Open source is a ‘silver bullet’ that allows simultaneous improvement along all three dimensions of the software “iron triangle” of cost, schedule, features
22. Changing Nature of Software Development Software development has changed Collaborative development Componentization & Search for re-use Agile methods that can adapt to changes Market Need – “Managing Abundance” Over 475,000 FOSS projects > 100 billion lines of code “Open source is a ‘silver bullet’ that allows simultaneous improvement along all three dimensions of the software“iron triangle” of cost, schedule, features.” Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester Research Aug. ‘10 451 Group Survey on OSS Use (Dec. 2009) 87% of companies say OSS meets or exceeds cost savings expectations 39% of OSS users ranked flexibility as the primary benefit
23. Open Source Drives Mobile Innovation Over 3,800 new OSS projects in 2010, doubling each of the last 3 years 94% of new projects that specify a platform are targeting Android and Apple/iOS Open source has redefined the mobile industry and is spreading far beyond
24. Major Trends – Developer Mindshare End Users Closed Source Vendors Open Source Vendors Service Providers Community
25. Major Trends – Balkanazation CodePlex Sourceforge GitHub Google Private Forges
SW development has changed profoundly Advent of the Internet, combined with FOSS licenses that facilitate sharing and cloud-available tools such as Subversion have fueled a whole generation of distributed, community based collaborative developmentAt same time, componentization and service based architectures, and code-specific search have made rapid prototyping and application assembly feasibleThis has enabled both Agile development methods, and multi-source: mixing own code, FOSS, 3rd party, Outsourced Economic of FOSS use/re-use are compellingAccelerate innovation, even in tough budget climate, by focusing scarce development resources on key value-add; assemble rest via multi-sourceLarge pool of proven, re-useable softwareOver 360,000 projects; 2M person-years; $400B value (COCOMO) Distributed, Multi-Source, Agile = new pragmatismCustomers have reduced new devel up to 80%, @ $10-$20 per LoC Market Need: Managing AbundanceMinority have defined policies; far fewer use tooling to automate/manage: Ad-HocOnce ready to accept Multi-source devel, dev shops overwhelmed w/ complexitySearch & select – need to make good choicesCompliance/Mgmt – make it easy, “designed in”, support Agile methodsAutomate policy, processes easily within existing ALM infrastructure