SAS Selects Black Duck for Software Compliance Management

Business Wire, Feb 14, 2005

BOSTON -- Black Duck Software, the leading provider of software compliance management solutions, announced at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo(R) today that SAS, the leader in business intelligence, has chosen Black Duck's protexIP(TM) solution to provide open source management for SAS product development. Use of the protexIP system will enable SAS to effectively use open source software and bring developers, lawyers, and business decision-makers together within an automated process, allowing them to better manage intellectual property and software license compliance.

SAS is the world's largest privately held software company with nearly 10,000 employees and the market leader in providing business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at more than 40,000 sites - including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500(R). Black Duck Software helps companies to preserve the value of their software intellectual property and implement automated licensing compliance programs. The company's innovative services provide an automated solution that supports both the accelerated pace of development and the heightened sensitivity to business controls required in today's business environment.

"SAS maintains stringent control over our software intellectual property and that of our third-party and open source partners," said Patricia Brown, assistant general counsel for SAS. "Black Duck's protexIP system provides us with an intuitive system that automatically checks the source code and provides information about open source usage. It identifies what we need to know early in the development cycle, assuring that everyone on the team can understand the guidelines and adhere to our licensing policies."

"SAS is an innovative user of open source software components," said Douglas A. Levin, CEO of Black Duck. "We are extremely pleased to be chosen by this market leader to automate their management process, enabling them to implement the latest, best practices for protecting their valuable intellectual property.

About SAS

SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at more than 40,000 sites - including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500(R) - to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know (R).

About Black Duck Software(TM)

Founded in 2002, Waltham, Massachusetts-based Black Duck Software, Inc. is the leading provider of software compliance management solutions for governing software assets. Black Duck's customer base includes enterprises, vendors, law firms and other organizations worldwide. For more information about Black Duck, visit www.blackducksoftware.com, email sales@blackducksoftware.com, or call 781.899.2718, extension 450.

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