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11-10-2009, 11:31 PM
A Black Duck (http://www.blackducksoftware.com/) analysis done using the Constructive Cost Model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCOMO) shows the average enterprise software project is 22% open source, saving an average of $26 million on each project. Black Duck surveyed over 175 customers that used open source software in hundreds of development projects over the past 18 months.The customers and applications included in the sample were drawn from a wide range of application segments, including many that aggressively use open source such as mobile, digital media, social media, financal servicesand enterprise software.
Black Duck provides products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Based on Black Duck’s work with commercial customers that build software using open source components, it has increasingly developed into a valuable research tool providing insights into Open Source statistics and trends in the current market. The company spiders the Internet collecting open source and other downloadable code into a repository called the Black Duck KnowledgeBase, a database of more than 220,000 open source projects with tens of billions of lines of code from over 4,500 unique Internet sites. Daily updates of open source statistics can be found at http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss (http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss)
To view the official study result, visit http://www.blackducksoftware.com/news/releases/2009-11-10 (http://www.blackducksoftware.com/news/releases/2009-11-10)
Black Duck provides products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Based on Black Duck’s work with commercial customers that build software using open source components, it has increasingly developed into a valuable research tool providing insights into Open Source statistics and trends in the current market. The company spiders the Internet collecting open source and other downloadable code into a repository called the Black Duck KnowledgeBase, a database of more than 220,000 open source projects with tens of billions of lines of code from over 4,500 unique Internet sites. Daily updates of open source statistics can be found at http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss (http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss)
To view the official study result, visit http://www.blackducksoftware.com/news/releases/2009-11-10 (http://www.blackducksoftware.com/news/releases/2009-11-10)