Black Duck Collaborates With Microsoft on CodePlex Project Availability
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Black Duck, a company that services managed and secure implementations of open source software, announced a collaborative agreement with Microsoft that automates the process of adding open source projects from Microsoft's CodePlex repository into Black Duck's KnowledgeBase. CodePlex projects will also be searchable via the Koders.com open source search engine.
The partnership is significant because CodePlex houses 9,000 projects -- mainly for Windows and .NET developement -- with more than 100 new projects added every week. Since CodePlex accepts any technology projects, however, those with open source elements will now be accessible to developers in the FOSS community.
In a prepared statement, Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s Senior Director of Platform Strategy, says, “Black Duck’s KnowledgeBase is a useful resource for development managers tasked with managing open source code in mixed-source development environments. The addition of CodePlex projects makes this a more powerful development resource.”
Black Duck's KnowlwdgeBase is a repository of more than 200,000 open source projects culled from over 4,100 Web sites across the Internet, with over 40,000 added just this year alone.
