Ottawa, ON - Protecode, Inc., a solution provider for managing open source software licenses, today announced Protecode System 4TM, the latest refinement of a suite of capabilities that enables all sizes of enterprise businesses - small, medium and large - to efficiently and cost-effectively identify open source content in their source code and determine their licensing obligations.

System 4 installs as a simple overlay on existing design, development and testing environments without changing any existing workflows.

The core of System 4 is the Protecode open source reference database that matches source code against a comprehensive list of 450,000 open source software projects.

Using a modular architecture to enable a wide variety of deployment possibilities, System 4 comprises a set of lightweight clients installed throughout an organization with minimal overhead on IT infrastructure and technical staff.

System 4 can be easily customized for individual company divisions, product lines, or geographic offices with this architecture, including centralized or project-level user group, role, permission and license policy administration.