JazzHub has a new name!The JazzHub of today began its life as an experimental development collaboration hub for academia and researchers, based on IBM’s Jazz technology. We learned a lot from that experience and since then we have re-implemented JazzHub in the cloud and opened it up to everyone.
We integrated the Eclipse Orion Web IDE, introduced the ability to deploy applications directly to IBM’s BlueMix Cloud Platform, and we plan to expand that capability to include continuous integration, unit test, and deployment based on Jenkins and UrbanCode. With these new capabilities and more to come, JazzHub builds on the core Jazz services to provide a pretty nice environment for cloud application development. To reflect the expanded role of JazzHub in the IBM family, we are renaming it “IBM DevOps Services”, or “IDS” for short. JazzHub will continue to refer to the underlying technology stack, as in “Powered by JazzHub”.
We’ve come a long way since the early JazzHub experiment, and we know we couldn’t have done it without the great support and feedback from our users… so from all of us on the JazzHub team… a big “thank you!” to all the professors, students, partners, customers, and developers out there that have created or joined projects at IBM DevOps Services (JazzHub)!
Dave Thomson,
Director and DE, IBM DevOps Services (JazzHub), and Eclipse
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Exciting to see so much progress in how we are approaching SaaS, experimenting and getting rapid feedback.
Very exciting news!!!
Does that mean the URL will change from http://hub.jazz.net to http://ids…?
It won’t be changing in the next couple weeks for sure… and beyond that we have not finalized the plan yet.
Renaming JazzHub to DevOps Services is a foolish thing to do, IMHO.
Given the immense popularity of GitHub as the central hub for source control in the cloud, JazzHub could be the central hub for software development in the cloud. A lot of customers are still unaware or unfamiliar with the term “DevOps”, but GitHub and JazzHub are starting to resonate.
Of course, you could market a new service called DevOps Service powered by JazzHub. But please, keep JazzHub alive for the nerds who think in terms of Eclipse, Git, Agile Scrum and SAFe, source code and builds. They are the true influencers of the managers to buy services from Big Blue.
The reason that Git and GitHub is so popular is because people use it as a hobby, like it and bring that love to their work. It is not that some manager had a bright idea of starting to use Git! The same counts for the popularity of Scrum: people try it, like it and take it to work. By lifting JazzHub to a corporate level, you spoil the try it, like it, take it to work cycle.
Hi Frank. I appreciate the thoughtful feedback. We’ll certainly incorporate it into our thinking.
You have come a long way. Congratulations.