Mailing the story:

As open source adoption has ramped up in recent years--especially at businesses and organizations--Black Duck Software has steadily been extending its role in the growth, largely through a series of acquisitions. The acquisitions have transformed it from the open source auditing entity that it originally primarily functioned as into a player in the open source deployment, management and development space, and more. With its latest acquisition of the assets of SpikeSource, it is continuing that trend--all focused on open source.