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IBM Donates Parts of Rational to Open Source
slashbob22 writes "IBM has decided to contribute portions of the Rational Unified Process to the Eclipse Foundation. From the article: 'RUP is a vast collection of methods and best practices for promoting quality and efficiency throughout software development projects. IBM's donation will also provide a foundation architecture and Web-based tools for the industry to engineer, collaborate on, share and reuse software development best practices.'"
If you can't sell it....DONATE IT!!!
OMG! Now Microsoft will be able to use it and write good products.
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Oh, never mind. Everyone knows MS would never be caught dead touching anything OSS.
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I hope those are in the Rational Unified Process (perhaps the construction phase of RUP).
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
I hear they're planning to use volume to make a profit.
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RUP is a step up from the Waterfall model, but it's certainly not the greatest thing out there.
It's obvious you have a limited view on what the RUP process is... RUP is in the Agile category of develpment processes and can be tailored from basically no ceremony (design documents, traceability, etc.) to high-levels of ceremony. The problem with RUP is that it's been heavily used in the Government sector, which historically has been at the far-right on the ceremony scale; many people have a vast misconception that RUP is "just a step-up" from the waterfall model. When in fact, RUP is not even in the same category as the Waterfall model.
I believe IBM releasing the RUP standards to the Eclipse project is going to go a lot of good in getting RUPs current "label" turned around from being just a "modified waterfall" method, to being known as a full-blown Agile method.
Giving away half a product away may not seem rational, but it is shrewd. You have the engine, would you like to buy the key.
... Now, THAT would have been irrational.
As for for the decision to give half the product away, I understand IBM was thinking of giving away the square root of the product away
In otherwords, its a buzzword generator with no real content.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
ALso kind of like capitalism. See ENRON.
That's because the code stage is handled in India.
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