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During the GRUG Birds of a Feather session,
new board of the GRUG Council was elected
with many new members. The council meets on a
monthly basis and works with IBM and the
community managers to grow the community
further and expand and improve features to
members both at live events as well as on the
community web site. If you are interested in
becoming a member of our council please email
wjbatten@us.ibm.com
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At this year's conference, we announced an array of new offerings built upon, and leveraging the Jazz Technology Platform. In total, over 20 offerings from IBM and our business partners will be launched, all aimed at helping customers drive greater value and performance from their investments in software. We will also be announcing several new Jazz technology initiatives that continue our Jazz-driven innovation. We announced twenty new offerings delivered
by us or by our business partners that will
enable our customers to put the collaborative
value of the Jazz technology platform to
work. These products include:
Of these products, three are Jazz-based
(Rational Team Concert Express-C, Express,
Standard editions, Rational Quality Manager,
Rational Requirements Composer); all others
are Jazz enabled.
MORE ON IBM RATIONAL TEAM CONCERT
Rational Team Concert is the first of a planned family of offerings based on the Jazz technology platform. It includes Jazz technology platform collaborative capabilities, support for software configuration management, team build, and work item management - in a collaborative development environment optimized for distributed teams. Rational Team Concert provides a collaborative software development experience integrating SCM, Work item and Build Management for development teams. Rational Team Concert is available in 3
editions, Rational Team Concert Standard
Edition, Rational Team Concert Express
Edition, and Rational Team Concert Express-C
Edition. For more information please go to
the RTC link: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rtc/
One of the big differences between the 3 editions is scalability. Express-C will support up to 10 users, Express up to 50 users, and Standard up to 250 users. All editions support Source Code Management, Work Item Tracking, Build Management, and Subversion integration. Only Standard provides support for ClearCase and ClearQuest connectors, customizable work item attributes and workflow, and dashboards. OPEN SERVICES FOR LIFECYCLE
COLLABORATION
As part of the June 2nd announcements, IBM is introducing an initiative, called Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration,aimed at simplifying collaboration across the software delivery lifecycle. Our goal is to enable teams to use disparate tools and share lifecycle resources in delivering software, whether the tools are from IBM, other vendors, open source projects, or in-house development. We aim to do so in a way that is open and non-proprietary and that will encourage all industry members to participate. OPEN SERVICES FOR LIFECYCLE COLLABORATION As part of the June 2nd announcements, IBM is introducing an initiative, called Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration,aimed at simplifying collaboration across the software delivery lifecycle. Our goal is to enable teams to use disparate tools and share lifecycle resources in delivering software, whether the tools are from IBM, other vendors, open source projects, or in-house development. We aim to do so in a way that is open and non-proprietary and that will encourage all industry members to participate. Specifically, we're publishing several things at Jazz.net, including an initial set of descriptions for lifecycle resources such as requirements and test cases, as well as protocols and services for accessing these resources. We're also providing code that illustrates usage of these protocols. We hope that by openly sharing our ideas and sample code, our efforts will promote cross-industry dialog that will lead to agreement on a common architecture and to both commercial products and open source projects that implement these protocols. For more information: please access this link: https://jazz.net/open-services/ MORE ON THE JAZZ TECHNOLOGY
Jazz is IBM Rational's new technology platform for collaborative software delivery. Uniquely attuned to global and distributed teams, the Jazz platform is designed to transform how people work together to build software-making software delivery more collaborative, productive and transparent. You can think of Jazz technology as an extensible framework that dynamically integrates and synchronizes people, processes and assets associated with software development projects. Jazz technology enables collaboration among business stakeholders, subject matter experts, and all of the relevant people that have a role to play in the successful delivery of software - not just software professionals. This represents a transformational leap in the value of software delivery teams, as these teams can now make software a focal point for driving innovation across the enterprise. Jazz reflects highly skilled practitioners working together - with both a high degree of individualism yet at the same time a high degree of control and discipline. Jazz is a tribute to the great teams who excel as both virtuoso performers and as part of a team. Jazz is a new technology platform developed by IBM Rational. You will be able to purchase products that are based on this technology platform, and we may also license the Jazz Platform itself on an OEM basis. Our intent is that over time most of our existing products will be increasingly based on or make use of Jazz technology. We plan to also offer new offerings based entirely on Jazz such as Rational Team Concert. Jazz is a commercial project, and the technology being developed at Jazz.net is licensed by IBM Rational. However, we are making Rational Team Concert - the first offering based on Jazz technology - free of charge to academic institutions and qualified open source projects. In addition, we are making available the Express-C edition of Rational Team Concert available for free for up to three users. You can download this from jazz.net JAZZ.NET & THE JAZZ COMMUNITY
Jazz.net is IBM's venue for open commercial software development of the Jazz platform, and serves as the focal point for the growing Jazz community. Jazz.net is open to everyone. You can join by registering at the Jazz.net site. Membership at Jazz.net entitles you to participate in the Jazz community and development of Jazz and our Jazz-based products. You can access product betas and Jazz technology incubators and technical information. You can also participate in Jazz development by interacting directly with the Jazz development team through the defect tracking system and newsgroups and mailing lists. RATIONAL BUSINESS PARTNERS & JAZZ At this year's conference, we announced an array of new offerings built upon, and leveraging the Jazz Technology Platform. In total, over 20 offerings from IBM and our business partners were launched, all aimed at helping customers drive greater value and performance from their investments in software. We also announced several new Jazz technology initiatives that continue our Jazz-driven innovation. Read the press release: New IBM Programs and Business Partner Products to Accelerate Software Delivery PARTNERS RECEIVE AWARDS AT RSDC
Partners who have actively engaged, participated and demonstrated opportunity identification and ownership of SMB and new customers through the use of marketing and field activities promoting Rational solutions, participation in Rational sponsored events, and contribution to customer testimonials and references were given particular consideration. The IBM Rational Business Partner Awards were launched this year to recognize excellence within the Rational partner community. IBM wants to publicly acknowledge the breadth of our Rational Business Partners' expertise and the value they provide to customers worldwide. Winners will receive a Complimentary RSDC Pass, recognition during Keynote at the Rational Software Development Conference 2008, Rational Award Plaque, and Web promotions with IBM throughout 2008 on Rational web pages. Selection criteria included:
And the envelope please..
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"We've seen a very dramatic shift in their support of the business partner community," said Gregg Bjork, CEO of Weblayers, a Cambridge, Mass.-based supplier of IT asset policy management and governance tools, speaking of IBM Rational's embrace of the channel. --CRN Steve Mills...runs what the company labels as the world's largest software development organisation. IBM makes this claim as it states that, on a global level, it has more than 25,000 developers in 77 locations focused on developing software. So, says Sabbah, the company can act as an extremely large-scale user of its own products and this helps testing and development. --ZDNet UK Analyst Baer said, "A couple of years ago Jazz was pretty ethereal. Now we have the outline of a product plan." --SearchSoftwareQuality Principal among the new releases is Rational Team Concert, which IBM said has been built to incorporate social networking and Web 2.0 technologies to help monitor version control and project health. The company says these 'collaborative' functions will improve processes such as data gathering, in what it describes as the increasingly globalised nature of application development. --ZDNet "The focus of Jazz is to find a real-time collaborative environment in which you have the context and the team awareness and the process awareness of how we are going to work together," said David Locke, director of go-to-market products for IBM Rational. --SD Times If you are one of the small group of people who have written Rational off as impossibly clunky and "so not Web 2.0", think again. Actually, that was always unfair; you don't get Rational's market share with products that don't work, but they were optimised for different conditions and different kinds of development. ..Related to Rational renovation, I think, is the Telelogic acquisition. If you thought that this was just the acquisition of extra customers or the killing of a rival, think again..the impression I got was that both sides saw nothing but opportunities from the merger. --IT Director
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