Open Commercial Development

Open Commercial Development is a new hybrid development model that takes aspects of both the Open and proprietary development models to provide a new model for the commercial software development process. In this presentation we will discuss what it means to be Open and look at how commercial development can be Opened up without moving to a completely Open Source model.

Lawrence Mandel, Software Developer, IBM Rational Software, IBM Canada Lawrence Mandel, a software developer at the IBM Toronto Laboratory, is currently the Portfolio Management Advanced Development Lead for IBM Rational. Previously he worked on Web development tools including the Eclipse Web Tools Platform project and Rational Application Developer. Lawrence is also leading the Apache Woden project and is a coauthor of the book Eclipse Web Tools Platform: Developing Java Web Applications. Lawrence joined the IBM Toronto Lab after graduating from the University of Toronto with an Hon. B.Sc. in Computer Science and Human Biology.

Jeffrey Liu, Software Developer, IBM Rational Software, IBM Canada Jeffrey is a software developer at the IBM Toronto Lab. He is responsible for the development of the Rational Portfolio Manager. Jeffrey joined IBM in 2001 after graduating with distinction from the University of British Columbia with a B.A.Sc in Computer Engineering, Commerce minor.