Black Duck Software has bought SpikeSource.
Black Duck offers products and services for managing the use of open source software. SpikeSource is a provider of software tools and services to automate application component identification and security.
Darryl Taft of eWeek has the story.
“Among the technologies acquired was SpikeInsight, a cloud-based offering for automated application component identification and security vulnerability assessment; SpikeForge, a forge comprising 17 open-source projects; the Developer Community Forum, a group of forums associated with SpikeSource OSS projects, virtualization management technology and a number of other software assets.”