One more integrated ALM player in the market...

Hey guys,

As you probably know, IBM Rational has been working on Jazz, a collaboration/ALM platform for quite some time.

Today, at the Rational Developer Conference, an official announcement was made to outline the pricing and road map of Jazz and Rational Team Concert (the first commercial Jazz client).

I've had a chance to experiment with some of the Jazz beta releases. I won't go into my opinions about them in this post. There is no Visual Studio client for Jazz so the choice between using TFS or VSTS is still really a platform decision (.NET vs J2EE).

Here are a couple of articles that describe this latest addition to the integrate ALM market.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/02/IBM-reveals-Jazz-product-launch-wave_1.html

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/development/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208401008

In that second article, you'll find a description of how Jazz will be priced:

"Team Concert will be available in a free Express-C edition for use by up to three developers and in the Express edition, aimed at departments or midsize companies with up to 50 developers and priced at $1,200 per developer. The Standard edition ($3,900 per developer) supports as many as 250 developers. A full-blown Enterprise edition is slated for next year."

I copied a table from the Jazz community site that describes how the features are distributed amongst the various editions. I noticed a slight discrepancy in the maximum number of users for the Express-C edition - the Jazz community site says 10 but the article above says 3. I'm sure one of the two will get corrected shortly.
Apologies, there is something odd with template, any table has a huge leading space added to it.

Features		Express-C		Express		Standard
Max User Limit		10		50		250
Database included (optional)		Derby only		Derby and DB2 Express (DB2, Oracle)		Derby and DB2 Express (DB2, Oracle)
App Server included (optional)		Tomcat only		Tomcat (WebSphere)		Tomcat (WebSphere)
Source Code Management		yes		yes		yes
Work Item Tracking		yes		yes		yes
Build Management		yes		yes		yes
Agile Planning		yes		yes		yes
Subversion Integration		yes		yes		yes
Server Level Permissions		yes		yes		yes
LDAP Authentication		yes		yes		yes
Customizable Process		yes		yes		yes
Customizable Work Item Attributes and Workflow						yes
Reports						yes
Dashboard						yes
Role-based Process Permissions						yes
ClearCase Connector						yes
ClearQuest Connector						yes
LDAP Import						yes