IBM Jazz Edges Closer To Open Source

hhavensteincw writes "IBM is molding its Jazz technology, which helps software development teams collaborate, in the image of its popular Eclipse open source community. IBM said that today's move to open access to its Jazz.net portal to anyone to peruse its code, access bug lists, etc. puts it on the path to completely open-source the Jazz technology."

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Not much information in article... see videos

[compumike]

I love when I can actually RTFA and still have no idea what the product is. So I found these videos of Jazz which should be helpful. But this is one of those "platform" things where they aren't actually selling anything... But my interpretation is that they're essentially trying to put together a code repository (ala Subversion) with Bugtraq with mailing list with instant message.

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Re:Not much information in article... see videos

[Anonymous Coward]

Somewhat, but not quite. This isn't them specifically growing out of the sourceforge.net/open source community, I think this is them trying to go for the "Behind The Firewall" versions of Sourceforge.

Rational's been getting its ass kicked by SourceForge Enterprise Edition and Collabnet Enterprise Edition (in addition to JIRA and GForge) for a while now. While the two big players, SourceForge Enterprise Edition (used to be owned by VA, er, SourceForge.com) and CollabNet Enterprise Edition were bringing the Rational and Star Offices to SFEE and CEE, I think IBM woke up and realized that there are a lot of new things.

CollabNet bought SourceForge Enterprise Edition in April, and it seems like that company is going to go down in flames. If you add on top of SFEE and CEE, they have some Virtualization software that isn't quite hotel management software, and some reporting software that you'd be better off using Jasper or Crystal reports for. Yes, there are eclipse plugins for SFEE and CEE, but, this is taking it completely a step further -- bringing the product lifecycle inside of the IDE, from conceptualization to User stories to coding to defect tracking and releasing software. It also looks like IBM's solved the ability to cluster, something CEE and SFEE haven't been able to do.

It looks promising, to say the least.

What is Jazz

[MrCopilot]

Everyone is asking what it is. When did we get so lazy?

What is Jazz?

Developing software in a team is much like playing an instrument in a band. Both require a balance of collaboration and virtuosity. Jazz defines a vision for the way products can integrate to support this kind of collaborative work, and a technology platform to deliver on this vision.

Jazz is an IBM Rational project to build a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for integrating work across the phases of the development lifecycle. We believe Jazz will help teams build software more effectively while making the software development activity more productive and enjoyable.

Jazz is a technology platform, not a product. Product offerings that are built on the Jazz platform will be able to leverage a rich set of capabilities for team-based software development and delivery. Rational Team Concert Express will be the first of a planned family of Rational Team Concert offerings built on Jazz technology.

http://jazz.net/pub/index.jsp

Most of us haven't heard of it because it has been in a closed private pilot program, now open to all of us.

Re:Wall street is waking up

[Benjamin T Miller]

No, IBM's stock went up 5 points on Monday because their expected earnings per share were $2.80, 20 cents higher than the predictions of analysts. It has absolutely nothing to do with this "latest news of their ever-increasing commitment to open source software." While you and I might care about businesses and open source, Wall Street has exactly one thing in mind: profit, and higher than expected profit caused their stock to go up.

what Jazz is about

[Anonymous Coward]

I saw a demo once. In a nutshell, Jazz is to team performance what Eclipse is to personal performance, it is a platform for collaboration tools. I think it started as an internal project of eclipse developers to better support the Eclipse development process. You can define and enforce your software process and good coding practices. A software process can be a heavyweight pocess a la RUP or a lightweight like XP or any custom process like the Eclipse Process. There are development process building blocks like plans, tasks, roles, versions, (nightly) builds, milestones, releases, bugs, etc.. It supports distributed (multi site) development. It has an embededd chat capablity that is process aware (e.g. drag and drop of references to bug reports, builds and code deltas). There is also a "dashboard" web application with project status screens and bug tracking.