 | Level: Introductory Scott Laningham (scottla@us.ibm.com), Podcast Editor, IBM developerWorks
08 Jan 2008 Listen to a chat with Rational leaders on the open beta of Rational Team Concert Express.
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IBM® Rational® leaders Lee Nackman, Mike O'Rourke, and
John Wiegand riff on Jazz and the Rational Team Concert beta release in
this developerWorks podcast. Hear them talk about Jazz, how it fits into
the overall Rational story, and what the big news is with the Rational Team
Concert open beta. They touch on how open source has contributed to the
development of Jazz, and they share insights on the motivation for moving to
an open commercial software development model. Additional resources for
education on Jazz and Rational Team Concert are also mentioned.
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About the guests  Lee Nackman is responsible worldwide for IBM Rational's product strategy,
product development, and customer support. Previously, he was Rational's
CTO. He initiated the Eclipse open source tool platform and IBM
WebSphere® Studio tool products. He was a founding member of the
Board of Stewards for Eclipse.org. Prior to joining IBM Software Group in
1998, he held technical and management positions at IBM's Thomas J. Watson
Research Center. He was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 1998.
He has published 50 papers, a book, and holds two patents. You can contact him at lrn@us.ibm.com.  Mike O'Rourke is Rational director of Team Products, including
ClearCase®,
ClearQuest®, Team Concert, the first Jazz-infused product from Rational,
Build Forge and Software Analyzer. He is responsible for Rational Team
product development, product management, and quality engineering. He came
to Rational through the acquisition of BuildForge, where he was vice
president of development, IT, product and support. He was also an early vice
presidentof development at Tivoli® when it was bought in 1996. He
has also held key positions at Agillion, SupportSoft, Apollo Computer/HP,
and Compugraphic Corporation/Agfa. He received his bachelor's degree in
computer science from the University of Vermont and attended the MBA program at Boston College.  John Wiegand is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Rational's Beaverton lab
and Rational chief architect. He is responsible for defining the
architectural and implementation aspects of Jazz as a platform for use in
products across the software life cycle. Prior to his current assignment, he
was the technical lead for the Jazz project. He was the principal architect
for the Eclipse Platform infrastructure and played a central role in the
development of VA/Java™, VA/Micro Edition, and Eclipse. He is
a former member of the Eclipse Foundation Board, and played a key
leadership role in establishing Eclipse as a successful open source
project. He strives to enable teams to deliver high-quality products on
time — pioneering, with Erich Gamma and others, an approach to
software development called "The Eclipse Way." His interests are in the
areas of performance, scalability, compilers, and more.
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| | Scott Laningham, host of developerWorks podcasts, was previously editor of developerWorks newsletters. Prior to IBM, he was an award-winning reporter and director for news programming featured on Public Radio International, a freelance writer for the American Communications Foundation and CBS Radio, and a songwriter/musician. |
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