%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2008 %T TIM Lecture Series: The State of Open Source Software and Corporate Software %A Doug Levin %X On April 16, Doug Levin, CEO of Black Duck Software, gave a presentation entitled The State of Open Source Software and Corporate Software Development. This conference report presents the key messages and insights from the three sections discussed during the presentation. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 05/2008 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/139 %N May 2008 %9 Articles %1 Black Duck Software Doug Levin is president and CEO of Black Duck Software. Prior to founding Black Duck in 2002, Levin served as CEO of MessageMachines (acquired by NMS Communications in 2002) and X-Collaboration Software Corporation (acquired by Progress Software in 2000). From 1995 to 1999, he worked as an interim executive or consultant to a range of software companies, including CMGI Direct, IBM/Lotus Development Corporation, Oracle Software Corporation, Solbright Software, Mosaic Telecommunications, Bright Tiger Technologies and Best!Software. From 1987 to 1995, Levin held various senior management positions with Microsoft Corporation, including heading up worldwide licensing for corporate purchases of non-OEM Microsoft software products. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a certificate in international economics from the College d'Europe in Bruges, Belgium. %0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2007 %T Improving Application Development by Managing Licensing Issues %A Doug Levin %X Over the past ten years, the Internet and open source software (OSS) have enabled developers to fundamentally change the way they produce software. Increasingly, distributed teams are collaborating to assemble software from reusable components and their own proprietary code rather than building applications entirely from scratch. The component-based development model is fundamentally changing the software industry. It enables organizations that develop software, either for commercial sale or for in-house use, to accelerate project timelines, improve software quality, and reduce development costs. If not managed properly, the complexity inherent in this new world of mixed-IP (Intellectual Property) can pose business and technical risks to an organization. This paper draws on the experiences of the Black Duck Software team, our customers, and other industry experts to propose new approaches to managing IP in this new world. It describes a set of best practices that companies can use to avoid the risks and gain the benefits of the component-based approach to software development. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 12/2007 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/102 %N December 2007 %9 Articles %1 Black Duck Software Doug Levin is president and CEO of Black Duck Software. Prior to founding Black Duck in 2002, Levin served as CEO of MessageMachines (acquired by NMS Communications in 2002) and X-Collaboration Software Corporation (acquired by Progress Software in 2000). From 1995 to 1999, he worked as an interim executive or consultant to a range of software companies, including CMGI Direct, IBM/Lotus Development Corporation, Oracle Software Corporation, Solbright Software, Mosaic Telecommunications, Bright Tiger Technologies and Best!Software. From 1987 to 1995, Levin held various senior management positions with Microsoft Corporation, including heading up worldwide licensing for corporate purchases of non-OEM Microsoft software products. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a certificate in international economics from the College d'Europe in Bruges, Belgium.