IBM was behind porting VA Software's SourceForge Enterprise Edition to use the DB2 database back in 2002-2003. With time, this application stack was ported from being a PHP application to a J2EE app. Many of the features that Jazz has, were already in it and I guess SF Enterprise did get used internally at IBM.
Take a look at the feature set of an open-source fork of the original SourceForge called GForce at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GForge With its vested interests in the Eclipse and the Rational platform, it probably did not make sense for them to create something that was completely web based and would have required an ASP model or a concurrent user model to make money out of such a platform. SF Enterprise could have easily been bought up by IBM, but instead, CollabNet acquired the same. Web based collaboration for development and project management was something they started with, but ran off-course. I had helped a colleague of mine write a couple of Eclipse plugins to connect to the SF Enterprise server whose primary aim was to fetch SF Enterprise artifacts like defects, issues, etc., right into the IDE. This too was sponsored by VA Software, but no points for guessing as to who was guiding this philosophy. The whole XMLRPC based interaction with the SF Enterprise backend did suck at times, but it worked, as writing XMLRPC clients in Java was pretty much a breeze and it did not care if the server was in PHP or Java. The podcast might have sounded like a marketing pitch, but I think keeping one's eyes and ears open to what the overall industry is doing, never hurts. I would never invest into the Rational/Jazz behemoth at any cost. Be simple, get out and look at all the fantastic open-source tools and pick your poison. Free poison is better than buying some. Regards On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Alan Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Certainly was a bit of marketing in it, but I still found it very useful > to get an overview of what Jazz was and how they saw the world. (Just > as I value people's opinions and views on this mailing list.) So I > thought it was a valuable podcast. Clearly the interviewers were asking > questions and giving a chance for response rather than their normal > internal dissecting discussions that we love. > > I just wanted to encourage the Posse to keep up with such interviews > occasionally - although episodes where they can get their teeth into the > topic without risk of offending people (at least too much) are more fun. > > Alan > > > > -- Amarjeet Singh Phone: +91-98712-76661 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
