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IBM Opens Jazz to All


Big Blue opens Jazz.net and releases beta 2 of Rational Team Concert

By Jeff Feinman
January 14, 2008 — 
IBM has opened its Jazz collaboration platform to the software development community with Jazz.net, and is also making progress on the first Jazz-based commercial product.

Previously only available to IBM customers, Jazz.net can now be used by all software developers. Scott Hebner, vice president of marketing and strategy for IBM Rational, said that it had been for the most part invitation only, with thousands of developers in the IBM community participating. But the company today announced that anyone can get access to all Jazz technologies, source code, bug reports and requirements. Hebner said that IBM is trying to build Jazz in an open and transparent manner so that customers can participate in the creation of products they’ll ultimately be using.

Additionally, IBM is offering free licenses to any university or educational institution that wishes to teach with Jazz, as well as to any qualified open source project.

Preparing for the Concert
IBM has also released the beta 2 version of IBM Rational Team Concert Express, which will help small and mid-sized development teams improve their productivity by enabling real-time collaboration with a global scope.

IBM Rational Team Concert Express, which will be fully available in the middle of this year, is the first Jazz-infused offering in a new suite of development servers being developed, IBM officials said. It includes Web dashboards to help software project teams to see real-time data such as the status of work items and project health.

Team Concert Express is a development server designed to allow IBM customers to better integrate the products that they create into their application life-cycle management platform, Hebner said. It is going to be a low footprint, flexible ALM platform that’s optimized for agile development teams. “What we mean by that is it integrates the entire team around an integration server and allows you to do in-place collaboration with team members,” Hebner said. “It’s one thing to be able to collaborate with each other; it’s another thing for the system to figure out what you’re working on, and what other assets or people are related to that work effort.”

IBM Research has also announced Project Bluegrass, which takes the IBM Jazz technology and combines it with virtual worlds. The main goal of the project is to help the Baby Boomer generation communicate its knowledge to the younger workforce before it's too late.

“Bluegrass is merging the power of these virtual worlds, like Second Life, with an open, community-based platform like Jazz,” Hebner said. “What’s kind of neat about it is that as you’re working as part of a software development team, the whole idea of Jazz is to facilitate that collaboration. The virtual world adds the ability to start to visualize that, and see what the other people are doing and what they’re working on.”


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