Waltham, MA-based Black Duck Software, an open source software firm, said yesterday it has acquired Ohloh.net from Geeknet (NASDAQ: [[ticker:GKNT]]). Financial terms weren’t given. Ohloh, founded in 2006, is a free public directory of open source software and hosts a Web community of software developers. Black Duck says it will maintain and enhance the Ohloh website and brand as it integrates the directory with its code search site Koders.com. Black Duck is backed by Flagship Ventures, General Catalyst, Red Hat, Intel Capital, and other investors. The company was founded in 2002 and has expanded its business in recent years to focus on accelerating software development.
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Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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