Stories about: Jazz

IBM's Rational Software unit Monday listed 20 products that will use its new collaboration technology for development teams whose members are separated geographically or are dispersed throughout a company facility.

Officials from Google and IBM detailed efforts Tuesday to extend their platforms to developers via APIs and Web 2.0 technologies. But a Sun Microsystems executive cautioned that openness offered via forums such as blogs can have negative consequences if not managed well.

Researchers from a German university have developed a model to predict programming errors in applications.

"You sound great singing in the shower, but there's a rock star inside you!" So read the first line of a job posting placed by Viget Labs in December, in its attempt to fill a junior-level position for a Ruby on Rails "would-be rock star programmer."

IBM Monday opened its Jazz.net open-source community to anyone who wants to provide feedback on the technology, which is intended to help improve collaboration among software development teams.

IBM's Rational Software unit is considering putting parts of its Jazz collaboration framework into open source, according to an executive of the company.

Software developers using Asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX) techniques to jazz up corporate Web sites are failing to pay attention to some very fundamental security issues, security researchers warned at the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

IBM's Rational Software unit is planning to launch a new open source project in June which officials say is designed to help IT organizations improve collaboration among globally distributed software development teams.

Building on its Jazz strategy for collaboratively building software, IBM Rational will offer versions of its products geared toward global cooperative development with an eye toward boosting SOA in 2007.

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