Black Duck Software is announcing Black Duck Code Center on Monday, providing a software component selection, approval and tracking system designed to enable software development organizations to maximize benefits from reusing open source and other third party software components. Companies are increasingly mixing internal code with code from others, Black Duck said. Users need to manage code from external sourc Black Duck Software is announcing Black Duck Code Center on Monday, providing a software component selection, approval and tracking system designed to enable software development organizations to maximize benefits from reusing open source and other third party software components.Companies are increasingly mixing internal code with code from others, Black Duck said. Users need to manage code from external sources, the company said. “In the initial phases of the software industry’s uptake of open source software, we witnessed enthusiasm from software engineers but caution on the part of development managers because of the policy issues and risk associated with this approach,” said Douglas Levin, chief executive of Black Duck, in a statement released by the company. “With the introduction of Black Duck Code Center, companies will be able to manage these issues efficiently and effectively, enabling them to maximize component reuse within their development organizations.” Code Center can work with component usage policies customers have in place. Communications are standardized between engineers, legal, finance, security and other teams.Black Duck has shipped the product to several major technology companies and open source software industry leaders and anticipates general availability this quarter. Technology Industry