Two new Software startups focus on IP management

Palamida – Software Component License Management

Palamida is driving the market to a comprehensive, automated solution for IP risk management and compliance. Palamida IP AMPlifier automatically detects, manages and reports on 3rd party, commercial and open source components that may exist in the full range of your software code binary files, source files, and the myriad other components that make up today’s applications. We’re built to work with your existing IT environment, so we won’t slow down your development cycle while we’re helping the corporate and compliance teams.

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Black Duck Software, Inc.

Black Duck offers software compliance management solutions that help companies govern how software assets are created, managed, and licensed. Black Duck’s offerings enable companies that develop software using third party and open source components to catch and resolve intellectual property issues as they occur in development, instead of in the market or in court.

Announcing at LinuxWorld.