MEDIA RELEASE PR41675
Tim Yeaton, CEO of Black Duck Software, Named Senior Advisor of China Open Source Software
Promotion Union Think Tank
WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Joins Global Open Source Leaders to Promote Open Source Use in China
Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services
for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source
software, today announced that CEO and President Tim Yeaton was inducted
today as a Senior Advisor to the China Open Source Software Promotion Union
(COPU) Think Tank. Yeaton joins more than a dozen open source leaders from
around the world in the COPU Think Tank, formed to promote the adoption and
use of Linux and open source software in China.
Yeaton joins open source experts Jim Zemlin, Chairman, Linux Foundation;
Andrew Morton, Linux 2.6 Kernel Maintainer; Brian Behlendorf, Apache founder;
David Axmark, MySQL founder; Mark Shuttleworth, UBUNTU founder; Michael
Tiemann, OSI Chairman; Larry Augustin, Source Forge founder; Eben Moglen,
FSF; Dr. Daniel Frye, Director of Linux Foundation, VP IBM LTC; Dirk Hohndel,
Director, Intel OTC; Marc Fleury, JBoss founder; Dave Neary, Chairman, Gnome
Foundation; John Lilly, COO, Mozilla; Ram Peddibhotla, Director, Intel OTC;
Louis Suarez-Potts, OpenOffice.org Senior Community Development; Brian
Stevens, CTO, Red Hat; Markus Rex, CTO, Novell; Simon Phipps, former Chief
Open Source Officer, SUN; Jim Lacey, LPI Chairman; Thomas Li, CTO, IBM
Greater China Area; Dr. Matthew Wang, IBM Global VP & GM China Development
Center; Scott D Sandell, Partner, NEA VC; Chris DiBona, Google, and Wim
Coekaerts, VP Oracle as advisors to the COPU Think Tank.
"Tim is recognized worldwide as a top open source thought leader, and we
look forward to his participation in the COPU Think Tank," said Lu Shouqun,
Chairman, COPU. "COPU seeks constructive advice, suggestions and assistance
as we promote open source initiatives and development of open source software
in China. We are honored that Tim will join us and share his advice and
insight."
"COPU plays an important role in fostering the adoption of open source
software in China and other ASIA-PAC countries," said Jim Zemlin, Executive
Director, Linux Foundation. "It's gratifying to have Tim Yeaton join the open
source veterans as an advisor to the COPU Think Tank. Tim's long history as
an open source advocate will benefit COPU's efforts."
COPU, founded in 2004, is a non-government organization and a social
alliance of enterprises, communities, colleges, research institutions,
customers, industry organizations and agencies. The group promotes
communication and cooperation on open source issues among organizations and
customers in China, Japan and Korea.
About Black Duck Software
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for
automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software,
at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Black Duck(TM)
enables companies to shorten time-to-solution and reduce development costs
while mitigating the management, compliance and security challenges
associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com,
the industry's leading code search engine for open source, and is among the
500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com.
The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo,
California, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Beijing. For more
Black Duck, Know Your Code and the Black Duck logo are registered
trademarks of Black Duck Software, Inc. in the United States and other
jurisdictions. Koders is a trademark of Black Duck Software, Inc. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
SOURCE: Black Duck Software
CONTACT: Peter Vescuso, Black Duck Software, +1-781-891-5100,
press@blackducksoftware.com, Ann Dalrymple, TopazPartners, +1-781-404-2432,
adalrymple@topazpartners.com
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