IT Manager's Journal: ITMJ Q&A: Doug Levin, CEO, Black Duck Software | Linux Today

IT Manager’s Journal: ITMJ Q&A: Doug Levin, CEO, Black Duck Software

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 1, 2005

“ITMJ: Who are your top competitors? Today? Three years
from now?

Levin: Today Black Duck’s main ‘competition’
comes from inside potential customers. These companies are
satisfied with engineers doing manual code reviews and have put
together lightweight tools. There are also several open source
projects, such as ‘Comparator’ by Eric Raymond, which is a utility
that does code comparisons. Finally, Palamida, a startup from
California, has a scanning tool…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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