This is a continuation of IBM's and Rational's commitment to the open source community, ... We have built an ecosystem around RUP and we want to expand that.

Rather than controlling the basic process framework, we (at IBM) can leverage what the open-source community does. And other software vendors can do the same around our processes.

It's the inevitable path of all software engineering,

We knew we needed to disconnect the language from the process,

We can't strive and better the community if the city doesn't keep its commitment.

It represents the commitment we have to the arts, ... This is a commitment to the community -- the University community and the Charlottesville community.