Ottawa, ON and San Francisco, CA – May 6, 2008 – Protecode® Inc., a technology company that focuses on software Bill of Materials (BOM) management and Intellectual Property (IP) determination, will demonstrate the Beta release of its preventative IP management solution at JavaOne 2008 (May 6-9th in San Francisco, California. A fully functional beta version will be offered directly from the company’s website at no cost. The software is a plug-in development tool that unobtrusively creates a BOM list and manages IP by detecting and logging 100% of content entering a software project, and checking its IP attributes against specific policies.
With the beta version comes several product enhancements; these updates are designed to allow automated tracking of source and binary pieces of code, open source or commercial, that enter any project. These improvements enable open source creators to create and publish pedigree information effortlessly and help developers to accelerate managed adoption of open source code. Below is a list of key product enhancements now included in the beta release.
“Protecode's new product is unique because most IP management tools on the market are corrective solutions which only come into use after developers have finished their software projects and are performing due diligence,” said Dr. Lutz Tischendorf, CTO, Contraco Service Ltd., an internet search solution provider for T-Online, Germany's largest ISP and internet portal. “The ability to see, at a glance, the pieces in a software project, and their IP attributes, along with its extreme ease of setup and use, make the Protecode software an immense value to the software quality development process.”
“Identifying licensing attributes has become increasingly important in the development process as people are constantly looking for ways to manage open source and other third party software in their projects,” said Mahshad Koohgoli, CEO, Protecode. “With this release, Protecode allows a wider range of open source developers to publish pedigreed software, and enables commercial developers to track the external content and manage the licensing attributes of all open source components in their project.”
Protecode logs, identifies and reports pedigree and licensing information associated with external content in any stage of software development projects. Protecode automatically creates a software BOM, and manages compliance with organization’s IP policies, offering a clean pedigree that insures that developers/contributors are using licenses accurately. Protecoding (coding with Protecode plug-in as part of the development environment to ensure software pedigree tracking) frees developers from manual record keeping and interpreting open source rules and licenses.
Protecode will showcase the beta version of its technology at Java One 2008 (Booth #1224-10) on May 6-9th in San Francisco, California.
Protecode Incorporated is a Canadian technology company that focuses on software Intellectual Property (IP) determination and software Bill of Materials (BOM) management. Fully integrated with the leading software development environments, Protecode Inc. is addressing IP integrity issues facing enterprises and software developers worldwide. Protecode is the innovator of the protecoding development methodology. For more information, visit www.protecode.com.
Protecode, Protecoding and the Protecode logo are trademarks of Protecode Inc. All other trademamrks are the property of their respective owners.
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