IBM's Jazz Edges Closer to Open Source

January 21, 2008 (Computerworld) -- IBM last week opened its Jazz.net community to anyone who wants to provide feedback on the technology, which is intended to improve collaboration among software development teams. Carey Schwaber, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., said the move marks the first time IBM has committed to release any part of Jazz as open source. Opening Jazz.net “is a natural step — especially if they want to get a community built around this,” she said. “That is what makes or breaks an open-source project.” The Jazz.net community — which was launched in June — could previously be accessed only by customers and academics invited by IBM. The site will now provide all comers with access to Jazz code, bug lists and other details. Company officials acknowledged that IBM still owns the Jazz source code and agreed that it’s not a classic open-source project like Eclipse — yet. “[Jazz.net] is an open commercial community designed to build and evolve the Jazz technology,” said Scott Hebner, IBM Rational’s vice president of marketing and strategy. But he added that IBM does plan to eventually open the Jazz source code as it did with Eclipse. “The ultimate goal is very similar to Eclipse,” he said.

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