Geeknet Announces Sale of Ohloh.net to Black Duck Software

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Oct 05, 2010, 07:00 ET

WALTHAM, Mass. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Geeknet Inc. (Nasdaq: GKNT), the online network for the global geek community, today announced the sale of Ohloh.net to Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software.

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Ohloh.net, founded in 2006, is the largest open and public directory of Free and Open Source (FOSS) software, developers and users. The Ohloh site contains information aggregated from over 250,000 public code repositories, projects and forums. Black Duck acquired all assets of Ohloh, including the Ohloh.net website, brand, and project content relied upon by the Ohloh community.

"Ohloh is the largest public source of data about open source software, and we know this data is valuable to the open source community," said Scott Collison, Chief Product Officer of Geeknet and an Ohloh founder. "SourceForge is in the forge business and not in the business of providing data on open source software use. We decided to sell Ohloh to the preeminent FOSS data company in the world, Black Duck Software. We've had a relationship with Black Duck for years, and we are confident Black Duck will be the best steward of Ohloh's data and community."

"The developers Black Duck works with have asked for more freely available open source content," said Tim Yeaton, CEO and President, Black Duck Software. "The acquisition of Ohloh.net, when combined with our Koders.com free code search site and augmented with unique, additional content from the Black Duck KnowledgeBase of open source project information, will enable us to provide all developers who use open source code with a free, trusted, and comprehensive source of FOSS information, as well as the community and collaboration tools needed to keep them engaged and productive."

Black Duck will maintain its long standing partnership with SourceForge, through which Black Duck gathers information about open source projects hosted on SourceForge. That information is made freely available through Black Duck's Koders.com code search engine and also is incorporated into the Black Duck KnowledgeBase.

For more information, visit geek.net or www.blackducksoftware.com/ohloh

About Black Duck Software

Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multi-source development process. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development costs while mitigating the management, compliance and security challenges associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry's leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Mateo, California, London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

Black Duck, Know Your Code and the Black Duck logo are registered trademarks of Black Duck Software, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. Koders is a trademark of Black Duck Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

About Geeknet, Inc.

Geeknet is the online network for the global geek community. Our sites include SourceForge, Slashdot, ThinkGeek, Geek.com and freshmeat.

Geeknet, SourceForge, Slashdot, ThinkGeek, Geek.com, and freshmeat are trademarks of Geeknet, Inc.

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