Infoworld: IBM offers up best practices for software development

Focusing on best practices in software development, IBM on Wednesday will propose donating a portion of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to the open source Eclipse Foundation.

Roughly 15 percent of RUP content is to be offered to Eclipse in the form of HTML pages. Specifically, IBM will submit materials pertaining to basic guidance for software development.

To be contributed as part of an effort called Project Beacon, the RUP content will become known as the Eclipse Process Framework if the foundation accepts it. A vote is anticipated in a couple of months.

This is exactly the kind of move that I like to see from IBM - offering key components, technology and content to open source initiatives - that then become a community initiative. This is exactly what IBM did with Eclipse, which has had enormous success as an application development platform.

Now with the Eclipse Process Framework, the development methodologies as well, will become a community driven intiative. Another step in standardising on best practices and providing a basis for future innovation in this area.

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