Today, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced it has awarded the ACM Software System Award for 2011 to the IBM technical leaders responsible for Eclipse: John Wiegand, Dave Thomson, Greg Adams, Philippe Mulet, Julian Jones, John Duimovich, Kevin Haaland, Erich Gamma (now with Microsoft) and Steve Northover (now with Oracle).  JohnW, Dave, Philippe, Julian, Kevin, […]

We have such a great line up of sessions for you this year.  Please check out our new promo page where you will get to meet our wonderful Jazz Development Team, see what they will be presenting to you, and get to know who’s who and what they do on our team.  A record number […]

I have a hand in various parts of the jazz.net community site, but we’re coming up on one of my annual favorites: talking about and promoting the IBM Rational Software Conference – Innovate 2012! Why you should go to Innovate 2012 The view that most people out there may have of developers, and IT geeks […]

This past weekend the Rational Team Concert and Jazz Foundation teams got together for some serious bug knockdown on the 4.0 stream. To make things a little more interesting, the RTC and JF leadership team – myself, Adrian Cho, Kai-Uwe Maetzel, Philippe Mulet, and Scott Rich – offered to sponsor the “bug blitz” weekend with […]

The Rational Asset Manager (RAM) 7.5.1.1 fix pack is now available. It includes some updated and preview features supporting Dev/Ops and ALM usage scenarios, along with bug fixes.

The Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) community is working to standardize the way that lifecycle tools can share data (for example, requirements, defects, test cases, plans, or code) with one another. Linked data concepts are the foundation of OSLC. As a developer on Rational Quality Manager, I had a chance to see how OSLC […]

It’s not enough that our developers write great software, but did you know they are movie stars too? We have some great new features to show you as part of the Rational CLM Beta for 2012. We took a few of our personal favorites and added those videos to our site today. You can currently see […]

Spring is almost here, and that means a lot of things. It means that I’ll have to start mowing the grass again soon. It means that I’ve now long since forgotten my annual New Year’s resolution to lose weight. And it means that EclipseCon is just around the corner, and we’ve got some great stuff […]

Very few companies provide milestone builds of their products to their customers. And not all provide betas. But how many companies do both AND self-host on their milestones and betas? Not many, but we DO and we’re proud of it. By self-hosting, we work out the problems before you experience them, but we also know […]

Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) is a set of specifications that enable the integration of software development and more broadly Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). The intention is to make life easier for software and product developers and tools vendors, by making it easier for tools to work together. Every time we fire up one of […]