“Striving to reclaim thought leadership in software development
processes, IBM Rational is proposing to open source part of the
Rational Unified Process (RUP) through the Eclipse Foundation.“Under the proposal, IBM will contribute roughly 15% of RUP
content, including core best practices for iterative development
and web-based tooling for accessing and extending the best
practices. The bundle will also cover the metadata foundation
already submitted to the Object Management Group (OMG) for the
Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) initiative…”