IBM announces new software, vision for community driven Developmen

New Delhi, Aug 23 (UNI) IT service provider IBM today said it is opening up software development community as a transparent software supply chain which will drive the evolution of standards and common components incorporated in the company's future releases.

The opening up of http://www.Jazz.net is an open commercial community designed to improve team agility and collaboration, the company said in a statement.

The roadmap, unveiled at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2007 held in Bangalore, centers around IBM's software development portfolio which helps geographically and/or organisationally distributed development teams collaborate in real time.

''IBM is taking software development to a new level, and through participation in the Jazz.net community, customers can influence the products they depend on for software delivery,'' IBM Rational Software Vice President Steve Robinson said in the statement.

At Jazz.net, customers can transparently collaborate with IBM and each other, provide input on requirements, report bugs and ultimately contribute to the development of IBM's industry-leading software delivery platform, he said.

To start the collaborative development process at Jazz.net, IBM has posted several incubator projects focused on code analysis, requirements management and other aspects of Agile software development projects.

IBM is encouraging the greater software development community to collaborate on these projects and the Rational Team Concert beta.

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