At its Rational Software Development Conference, IBM plans to officially launch more than 20 products based on and connected to <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/IBM-Gets-Jazzy-with-Web-20/?sp=0&kc=EWKNLLIN060308FEA1">its Jazz-collaborative development environment.</A>

Dave Locke, director of worldwide marketing for IBM Rational, said that what the Eclipse integrated-development environment did for bringing desktop development together, Jazz is doing for collaboration.