Open Source Software Turned Industrial but Perceived Quality Don’t Change
Published August 25th, 2008 Under Methods & Tools, News, Numbers, Software Development | 1 Comment
Open source development tools like MySQL, Eclipse, PHP or JBoss are now adopted by many software development organizations. Our last poll examined how the quality of open source tools is perceived against their commercial competitors. We conducted a similar poll twice in the past and it is interesting to compare the results.
| Open source versus commercial tools | 2008 | 2006 | 2004 |
| Same quality | 31% | 38% | 32% |
| There is no easy answer to this question | 25% | 22% | 24% |
| Superior in quality | 21% | 20% | 26% |
| Inferior in quality | 12% | 12% | 13% |
| I do not use open source tools | 6% | 6% | 4% |
| I do not use commercial tools | 3% | 2% | 1% |
| Participants | 913 | 524 | 312 |
Source: Methods & Tools
Team Concert Beta 3 Out
Published May 13th, 2008 Under News, Software Development | 2 Comments
The IBM’s Jazz project has just released the beta number 3 of its Rational Team Concert (also named Rational Team Concert 1.0 RC2), the first product based on the Jazz Team Server. I had the chance to attend recently in Geneva to an interesting presentation given by John Kellerman, the product manager of Jazz. A long time IBM employee, John worked already on the AD/Cycle project and has been a part of Eclipse since its origins in 1998. He gave an insightful speech on how a company can “develop commercial software in an open transparent way”. This means that the development schedule and progress is completely visible and that open interfaces will allow other companies to integrate their products on the Jazz platform, even if some, like source management systems, are competitors of Rational products. For John, the gain achieved by having an open relationship with customers far outweighs the loss of having some code and development schedule visible by the competition. He said also that having Rational executives agree on this was not an easy task. Read more