JazzHub for commercial usage
Question
According to the FAQ, JazzHub is only open for professors, students and academic researchers.
See FAQ. Will JazzHub become available for commercial usages, with payed accounts?
Background to my question
Many customers I work for have a corporate intranet with strict security policies, prohibiting access from the outside. Collaboration with an external partner (trusted 3rd party) is difficult, because they cannot reach the (internal) repositories, such as SCM, requirements, test, etcetera and the IT department is very reluctant for allow holes in the firewalls (e.g. tunnels). In the future, we want to collaborate with the user community to develop apps for our products (using an RESTful interface, supported by an SDK).
Currently, we are investigating Github as a SCM system "in the cloud". It is open for commercial (payed) usage, and it allows us to have a restricted repository outside for collaboration of our internal development teams with trusted partners, and an open repository for collaboration of our internal teams with the open community. With a Git node internally, we can even archive the data on our secure infrastructure.
If there would be a commercial Jazzhub, we could have a similar infrastructure model as with Github (in the cloud, restricted for trusted partners + open for the open community) but with a richer feature set that we also need for internal projects. Even better (for IBM), it would encourage the management to look at Jazz for internal development projects too (which is still 99% of our systems & product development).
According to the FAQ, JazzHub is only open for professors, students and academic researchers.
See FAQ. Will JazzHub become available for commercial usages, with payed accounts?
Background to my question
Many customers I work for have a corporate intranet with strict security policies, prohibiting access from the outside. Collaboration with an external partner (trusted 3rd party) is difficult, because they cannot reach the (internal) repositories, such as SCM, requirements, test, etcetera and the IT department is very reluctant for allow holes in the firewalls (e.g. tunnels). In the future, we want to collaborate with the user community to develop apps for our products (using an RESTful interface, supported by an SDK).
Currently, we are investigating Github as a SCM system "in the cloud". It is open for commercial (payed) usage, and it allows us to have a restricted repository outside for collaboration of our internal development teams with trusted partners, and an open repository for collaboration of our internal teams with the open community. With a Git node internally, we can even archive the data on our secure infrastructure.
If there would be a commercial Jazzhub, we could have a similar infrastructure model as with Github (in the cloud, restricted for trusted partners + open for the open community) but with a richer feature set that we also need for internal projects. Even better (for IBM), it would encourage the management to look at Jazz for internal development projects too (which is still 99% of our systems & product development).
Accepted answer
Hi Frank. Yesterday, December 18, IBM released the IBM SmartCloud Application Services which includes the Rational Collaboration Lifecycle Management solution in a pay-as-you-go model. This service, running on the IBM SmartCloud, is an incrementally adoptable environment for agile development - and should be an ideal solution for your internal projects, as well as for the projects with your trusted partners. Please take a look - notice there is a 90-day free trial available for you to try it out. - Steve
Comments
Frank Schophuizen
Aug 19 '13, 4:21 p.m.Apparently, my request has been granted. JazzHub is now available for everyone.
Rob Retchless
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER Aug 19 '13, 4:46 p.m.Yes! Thank you for posting this question back in December. We had just begun our mission to launch JazzHub for everyone and your post was quite timely as it helped validate our approach! We had to remain somewhat cagey at that point, as you can see from Scott's answer below, but now the cat is out of the bag! Happy coding.