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IBM Donates Parts of Rational to Open Source

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the swiss-army-knife-of-dreams dept.

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.'"

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  1. Depends on the "Subset" by Deinhard · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've been a RUP user/proponent for several years. This may be, as the article alludes, a shot in the arm for improved processes. However, it remains to be seen just what the "subset" of RUP entails. RUP can be an unwieldy process that, if used in the (lowercase "e") extreme, make development slower and more "process-laden."

    However, from what I've seen lately out of some shops that are using more "modern" approaches (and failing miserably) this could be welcome relief.

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  2. Re:This is VERY GOOD news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    You DO know that this is about the "Rational Unified Process" and NOT Rational Rose, right? RUP is the development process that Rational tries to sell you on when you sell you the Rose UML tool. If you buy into RUP, they can manage to send you tons of consultants and sell you even more costly software.

    RUP is a step up from the Waterfall model, but it's certainly not the greatest thing out there.