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| | Rational Software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Rational Software was founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1980/1981 as a developer of software development tools. | | | Rational Software was an independent software development company until 2003, when it was bought by IBM. | | | The product Rational went into business difficulties and IBM acquired it in February 2003, incorporating it into the IBM Software Group Division where it became the fifth brand, alongside Websphere, Tivoli, DB2, and Lotus. |
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| | Learn more about Software architecture in the online encyclopedia. |
| | Software architecture as a concept was touched upon already in the 1960s by (for example) Edsger Dijkstra, but has increased in popularity since the early 1990s, largely due to activity within Rational Software Corporation and within Microsoft. | | | Software ontology is often considered to be a superset of software architecture, i.e. | | | Software architecture underlies the practice of building computer software. |
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| | Rational also acquired the Purify series such as ClearCase and ClearQuest for software test, and software configuration management (SCM). | | | The programmers at Rational Software, develop and maintain a software modeling program, originally called Rose, afterward called Rational Rose. | | | Rational has since been acquired by IBM, which plans to run it as an independent business. |
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| | IBM Scholars Rational Program |
| | Rational software powers the IBM Software Development Platform, which provides a simplified, modular approach to automating and integrating the software development process across people, software, and systems. | | | The IBM Rational SEED Program helps computer science professors develop their courses to enable both the professor and their students to stay at the fore-front of advanced software development techniques based on the Rational software development platform. | | | Rational has long played a leadership role in the software development community and has actively collaborated with other industry experts to advance the practice of software development. |
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| | Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Rational Unified Process - |
| | The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is a software design methodology[?] created by the Rational Software Corporation[?]. | | | It describes how to effectively deploy software using commercially proven techniques, and is a heavyweight process (also described as a Thick methodology), and hence particularly applicable to larger software development teams working on large projects. | | | Given the time it takes to develop large sophisticated software systems it not possible to define the problem and build the solution in a single step. |
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| | IBM Rational Software |
| | Rational: The software development platform for an on demand world. | | | Improve software functionality, reliability, and performance throughout the development project. | | | Rational services are designed to help you build team skills, reduce the time to productivity when implementing a new solution, and maximize the return on your investment in IBM Rational tools. |
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| | IBM Rational Software Architect 6.0: A Treasure Chest |
| | Rational Software Architect is based on Eclipse 3.0, the open-source framework for development plug-ins, which is now under the auspices of the Eclipse Foundation. | | | Rational Software Architect has extensive support for design patterns, which are best practices for implementing specific design principles or coding constructs. | | | Specific to Rational Software Architect is a new quality feature called structural review and control that automatically detects structural "anti-patterns"—undesired, yet common problems that creep into software as it evolves that hamper performance and cause maintenance problems. |
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| | Rational Software Corporation - Fact Sheet - Hoover's |
| | Rational Software wants all software development to be logical. | | | There are 30 competitors for Rational Software; see more. | | | Rational was acquired by IBM in early 2003. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction (2nd Edition) |
| | The Rational Unified Process, or RUP, is a software engineering methodology that attempts to map out and document all parts of a software development project. | | | The Rational Unified Process (RUP) was originally developed by Rational Software, which was recently purchased by IBM. | | | The thrust is the process of processes, specifically process in software projects, as viewed by Rational and supported by its project-management toolsets. |
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| | Software Dioxide: Rational SEEDs the country |
| | Rational Software Corporation India, hit upon this fundamental truth when it embarked upon an ambitious, mega program to seed the market to grow it. | | | Software Engineering is rapidly becoming more and more complex and most universities and educational institutions, recognizing the need of the industry have incorporated Software Engineering as part of the regular program of studies. | | | The tools supplied by Rational would be used by approximately 600 students of the program as part of their project. |
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| | Rational Software: Building E-businesses with the Rational Unified Process |
| | When collecting the requirements for a software system, the system analyst might be responsible for the vision and stakeholder needs; the use-case specifier would put together the use cases; and the architect would be responsible for the software architecture document. | | | A software architect would use a visual model to communicate changes in the architecture of a system to a development team, and a CEO can use a similar model to communicate changes in strategy to an executive team. | | | Fortunately, such roadmaps exist in the software engineering world; they are called software methodologies. |
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| | Rational Software Announces Complete Software Development Life-Cycle Support for the IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer |
| | Rational and IBM are continuing their long-standing relationship by collaborating on open, integrated Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) solutions necessary to enable customers to increase the speed, quality and predictability of their software development projects, and simplify Web application development. | | | About Rational Software Corporation Rational Software provides a software development platform that improves the speed, quality, and predictability of software projects. | | | Founded in 1981, Rational is one of the world's largest software companies, with revenues of $796.7 million in its twelve months ended September 30, 2001, and over 3,500 employees worldwide. |
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| | Business Wire: Correcting and replacing Rational Software prem... @ HighBeam Research |
| | Rational's solution includes an integrated family of products that automate development and quality assurance throughout the software lifecycle, a software process that can be configured to the specific needs of customers, and a range of consulting and support services. | | | Rational Software Corporation (NASDAQ:RATL) develops, markets, and supports a comprehensive solution that automates the component- based development of software. | | | Forte Software's annual user meeting, FORUM 97, which opens today, features a keynote by Dr. James Rumbaugh, a Rational fellow and a leading authority on the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). |
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| | DSstar: Rational Software Enters Data Modeling Market |
| | Rational Software Corporation, the e-development company, helps organizations develop and deploy software for e-business, e-infrastructure, and e-devices through a combination of tools, services and software engineering best practices. | | | Rational's integrated solution simplifies the process of acquiring, deploying and supporting a comprehensive software development platform, reducing total cost of ownership. | | | Rational Rose Data Modeler, available separately or as part of Rational Suite AnalystStudio, allows business analysts, developers and data modelers to work together in one common methodology and notation to build higher quality e-business software in less time. |
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| | IBM buys Rational Software for $2 billion |
| | Rational is a supplier of software and services for building business apps, and also makes embedded software for mobile phones and medical systems. | | | It is particularly interested in its software development environment, which, it said, will improve the speed and quality of its own software projects – and 98% of the Fortune 100 use Rational tools and services, it said. | | | The staff of Rational will bemerged into the IBM Software Group as a new division. |
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| | Update: IBM to buy Rational Software - Computerworld |
| | Rational will join other software purchases, including Tivoli and Lotus, as a new brand and new division of IBM's Software Group. | | | Rational co-founder and CEO Mike Devlin will serve as general manager of the division, reporting to IBM Senior Vice President and Software Group executive Steve Mills, IBM said. | | | IBM has agreed to acquire Rational Software Corp. for $2.1 billion, the companies said in a joint statement today. |
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| | Rational Dev Software Process, Tools and Ideas |
| | Rational Dev: The Never Ending Pursuit of Software Perfection | | | The creators of RationalDev write software programs every day and decided that writing down ideas as we came across them might save us some pain and time in the future. | | | From my project history and observations, here are some common problems I commonly see/hear about software development projects. |
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| | The new home of the Rational developer community |
| | Instead, Rational customers can reach this new area-without registration or login-at the Rational domain of developerWorks, at http://www-136.ibm.com/developerworks/rational, which is available to the software development community at large. | | | IBM Rational developerWorks content is freely available to the worldwide software development community, giving you free access to all materials about IBM developer technologies and products and the vast IBM developer community. | | | The systems and applications that hosted the Rational Developer Network were moved to IBM developerWorks at www.ibm.com/developerworks on April 30, 2004, and the former locations will no longer be available to you. |
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| | CIOL : News : IBM showcases Rational software tools in Bangalore |
| | BANGALORE: At the first ever IBM Rational Software Developers' conference to be held in the APAC region, the Indian software develop community were exposed to the IBM Rational's open framework and software development platform. | | | Around 10 per cent of IBM Rational software tools are developed at the company's Indian product development center. | | | Replying to a question on how the company would counter Microsoft's plans to release software development tools, Roger Oberg, VP, Marketing, IBM Rational, said that Rational believed in providing a flexible, open architecture for developers, which could be used across various platforms. |
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| | OIS - Partners - Directory Listing - Rational Software |
| | Rational Apex is the centerpiece of an extensive family of Rational Ada tools that provide support for modern software practices throughout the software lifecycle. | | | Rational's unique platform empowers teams to build software with the precision, automation, and confidence that comes from adopting a proven software development approach. | | | Rational's unique software development solution includes many Rational innovations that improve your ability to deliver with speed and quality - from standards-based modeling innovations to development Accelerators that jumpstart development efforts. |
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| | Rational Software Bows XDE Professional v2002 |
| | Rational Software (Quote, Chart) is marrying design to development with its launch Tuesday of XDE Professional v2002, an integrated development environment (IDE) tool for both.Net and J2EE programmers. | | | Both software camps are excited about what the software package will do to enhance their existing studio environments for future programming projects at business large and small. | | | We are very excited to work with Rational on Rational XDE Professional, a new tool that complements the Visual Studio.NET environment both for the individual developer, as well as large, distributed development teams," said Tom Button, Microsoft developer tool management vice president. |
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| | Software Dioxide: Rational Does a UML With Its RUP |
| | Rational partners are utilizing the RUP Exchange to distribute its extensive knowledge of technology, tools, and process to software practitioners worldwide. | | | Rational Software (Nasdaq: RATL) has collaborated with a broad range of key industry leaders, including IBM, Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems, to expand the Rational Unified Process (RUP) into an industry-wide process platform. | | | Rational partners, including Ensemble Systems, Applied Information Sciences, and Software Productivity Center Inc., have formed consulting teams within their organizations to assist customers and other Rational partners in building Plug-Ins with domain or platform-specific content for their projects needs. |
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| | IBM aims to get Rational CNET News.com |
| | Rational and IBM executives said that they will combine the development tools with IBM's software so that customers can build and manage applications simultaneously. | | | Rational CEO Mike Devlin will become general manager of the new Rational division within the software group, reporting to IBM Senior Vice President Steve Mills. | | | IBM and Rational have been strategic partners since 1999 and have been close collaborators on IBM's Eclipse development tools project. |
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| | Big Blue gets Rational Software - Dec. 6, 2002 |
| | "Rational (RATL: up $2.08 to $10.25, Research, Estimates) helps software developers around the world write software faster, with less risk, and can help produce a higher return on investment," Rational CEO and co-founder Michael Devlin said. | | | Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM said it plans to merge Cupertino, Calif.-based Rational's business operations and more than 3,400 employees into its software group as a new division and its fifth brand. | | | NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - IBM said Friday it has agreed to acquire software development firm Rational Software Corp. for $2.1 billion cash, or $10.50 per share. |
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| | Rational Software Global User Group Community |
| | The IBM Rational Software Development Platform helps companies transition to a business-driven development environment for SOA by providing tools and process guidance that leverage industry- standard and emerging programming models to simplify and accelerate business process modeling and the design, construction and assembly of service- oriented applications. | | | Are you an IBM Rational software user, looking to get the most out of your software development tools? | | | The Rational Software Development Platform helps companies to: |
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| | IBM to Buy Rational Software for $2.1 Billion |
| | "Rational supports what IBM does best, which is provide infrastructure software and software tools to help our customers create a complete software development environment," said Steve Mills, IBM senior vice president and group executive, Software Group. | | | IBM (Quote, Chart) Friday moved to pick up its largest software acquisition since it nabbed Lotus in 1995 when it agreed to buy Cupertino, Calif.'s Rational Software (Quote, Chart) for $2.1 billion in cash. | | | For its on-demand play, IBM is targeting companies that want to integrate their business processes and software infrastructure across their divisions. |
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| | Rational Software Global User Group Community |
| | Our offerings are mapped to the Rational development tool areas, which support the distinct stages of the AD life cycle and include: Visual Modeling and Development, Software Quality, Requirements and Analysis, Configuration Management, and Rational Unified Process. | | | The foundation curriculum delivers skills in base technologies, software development processes and supporting tools that the different roles in application development projects require in order to execute their tasks effectively. | | | There are many ways to learn concepts, develop skills, and gain the specialized knowledge needed to master the art of software development. |
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| | IBM Acquires Rational |
| | Rational provides a software development tools platform for J2EE,.Net, Linux and other environments, and about 600,000 programmers use Rational tools, the company said. | | | Rational joins Lotus, Tivoli, WebSphere and DB2 among the key components of IBM's software strategy. | | | IBM shook up the software and Web services development world Friday by acquiring Rational Software Corp. in a deal worth $2.1 billion--the company's largest acquisition since buying Lotus Development Corp. in 1995. |
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| | Rational Software set to roll out rapid development tool - Computerworld |
| | IBM's Rational Software division this week will announce a rapid application development (RAD) tool that's designed to reduce the complexity of building enterprise-class Java applications. | | | In addition, the IBM unit will upgrade its Rational Unified Process, a framework of best practices for software development projects. | | | Rational will also introduce an automated software testing tool that is due by the end of next month and will sell for $2,995. |
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| | Rational Software |
| | Rational makes tools for software developers, including software design and testing tools. | | | The offices at Rational Software have many of the trappings of a New Economy company. | | | "We are helping software developers in different industries develop software at higher levels, and do it faster and with better time to market," says Michael Messier, the company's vice president of human resources. |
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