InternetAll That Jazz From IBM

New open collaboration environment makes it possible to watch an application being built. First Rational tool to use it unveiled as well.

IBM today formally unveiled its Jazz open development community and its first tools, the culmination of an effort designed to accommodate new collaboration technologies in the development process. The site now is open to all developers as the open, transparent environment for building Eclipse-based projects. First announced by IBM in June, Jazz.net had previously been available only to IBM customers, academics and partners. Jazz.net is aimed at giving -- literally -- customers a view into the creation process of applications. There are other open collaboration environments -- CollabNet's SourceForge and Subversion are two of the most prominent -- but IBM feels Jazz represents an even-more open environment. "Anyone can come in and see us developing Jazz products in real time, provide feedback and see us developing it as we're developing it," Kathy Mandelstein, director of the Rational marketing program at IBM told InternetNews.com. The first project to come from Jazz.net will be IBM Rational Team Concert Express, currently in beta 2 and due to ship officially later in the year. The project is intended to help small and mid-sized development teams improve their productivity by using more collaborative technologies to keep in touch. "This transforms the way people can work together," Mendelstein said. "It provides functionality other products don't have, like right-size governance, being able to tell when peer developers are in and making changes in real-time... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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