IBM Corp. has agreed to acquire Rational Software Corp. for US$2.1 billion, the companies said Friday. Rational, which is located in Cupertino, California, provides software tools and services for ...

IBM said last week that the move demonstrates its continued support to leverage open-source technologies as the foundation for its portfolio of developer tools. News of IBM Rational's plan to support ...

Mike Devlin, general manager of IBM Rational, said the new release should be generally available by Dec. 31. The tool set aims to create a unified platform based on open standards that covers all the ...

IBM closed its $2.1 billion acquisition of Rational Software Corp. Friday, and has begun integrating Rational into its software division. IBM closed its $2.1 billion acquisition of Rational Software ...

After acquiring Rational Software for $2.1 billion in December, IBM has offered some insight into its plans to wrap Rational’s development tools into the On Demand initiative. Coming down the pike is ...

IBM will pay $2.1 billion in cash to acquire modeling tools company Rational Software, in a bid to win over more application developers. Rational's business operations will be combined with IBM's ...

My guesses for what would constitute the bulk of the show news this week at IBM's 2008 Rational Software Developer Conference seem to have been mostly accurate. It’s teams, it’s collaboration and it’s ...

IBM on Wednesday will announce integrations between its Rational and Tivoli product lines that enable users to automate processes across development, testing, and operations teams. The service ...

Big Blue's tools division is expected to detail its plans for using software from the open-source project Eclipse to make its products better integrated and to accelerate development. Martin LaMonica ...

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. Rational ...

Big Blue plans to pay $2.1 billion in cash for Rational Software, the leading seller of tools to create models of applications and databases before programmers actually start coding. Martin LaMonica ...