IBM could open source parts of its Jazz collaboration framework

US based tech giant IBM is one of the biggest supporters of open source software. The company has now said that they are considering open sourcing parts of its Jazz collaboration framework.

Scott Rich, a member of the management committee of the Jazz project said in a statement: “We might think about open-sourcing some of the very lowest layers (of the framework) so that the APIs (application programming interfaces) are available, and people could build on the kernel.”

This is expected to make the framework more pervasive.

IBM incidentally is also considering packaging and licensing some of the functional parts currently available on Jazz so that companies can use it for their in-house collaborative development.

Rich added on this: “The source code management capability, and other parts that really do things will likely stay commercial.”

Steve Robinson, vice president of Rational Software in IBM Software Group had this to say: “The idea of Jazz.net is to try and build a community around the Jazz platform.”

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