Collaborative development of business applications

Collaborative software development models, inspired by the open source community, are also being considered for development and deployment of business applications. We describe current work and future directions towards a hosted model to support collaboration during software development. We submit that such a platform can enable rapid application development, facilitate globally located virtual teams spanning locations to work as a single unit, and also encourage re-use, especially of technical frameworks. Going forward, we foresee extending such environments to providing an end-to-end development process accessible to globally distributed virtual teams