I finally found some time to go through the video interviews that I filmed while I was at Innovate 2010 earlier this month in Orlando, FL. I was able to track down a few Jazz developers, including Erich Gamma, and I also got a few customers and partners to share a few thoughts as well. […]

You may have noticed the appearance of a new project at Jazz.net called Rational Workbench for Collaborative Lifecycle Management. This project is an evolution of our Collaborative ALM effort focused on bringing together software development activities across requirements, development, build, and test. Why is this important? The activities involving requirements, development, build and test are […]

Download the Community Preview Access a Lotus Connections Server (or use My developerWorks if you donot have one) Provide feedback in the forums I am thrilled to announce the community preview of Social Connector for Rational Team Concert. Developed by Mainsoft in collaboration with IBM Rational, the Social Connector brings enterprise social networks to your […]

It is Sunday in Orlando, FL and the Innovate 2010 Rational Software Conference is in full swing. Here is our quick guide to Jazz at Innovate. You can see (or add to) a growing Flickr pool of photos to get a feel for the atmosphere: (Reproduced with permission of YAHOO! Inc. ©2010 YAHOO! Inc. FLICKR […]

Matt Holitza and I were thrilled to have a great audience for our presentation at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, May 3-6. It was great to see so many people interested in our presentation, Transforming Software Development through Web 2.0 Collaboration. In the spirit of open collaboration, we’ve made the slides available on jazz.net. […]

The Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.2 iFix 3 M1 milestone build is now available on jazz.net. The most notable addition to iFix3 is the support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. During the last month we’ve been hard at work testing the Client for Visual Studio with various configurations including standalone Visual Studio 2010 installs and configurations that […]

NOTE: This offer has ended and is no longer available. We’ve done two things to make Rational Team Concert more affordable for small teams: Made all editions start with a total of 10 Developers (three included + seven free) Dropped the server prices (by approximately half) for a limited time We heard feedback that users […]

Rational Team Concert has always been free of charge for open source projects and academic purposes. So, we love it when popular open source projects adopt Rational Team Concert and report back to us their experience and feedback. Now, I am one of the developers for Rational Team Concert, but I also happen to be […]

Since the first release of Rational Team Concert, we’ve always wanted to make it really easy to try out. In an effort to make this even easier, we’ve installed a sandbox Rational Team Concert [Edited on Dec. 17, 2010 to point to newer RTC 3.0 sandbox] server at Jazz.net, where every registered user can set up […]

Just a quick plug for an upcoming event … In preparation for Innovate 2010 in June, IBM Rational is hosting an online jam, or brainstorming session, called IBM Innovate Jam 2010, March 30-April 1. The event is free, and all are invited to participate. Several of the Jazz leads, including Erich Gamma and Dave Thomson, […]