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 ...

IBM Corp. last week agreed to acquire development tools vendor Rational Software Corp. for $2.1 billion. The deal marks the second largest software acquisition in Big Blue's history. Analysts say ...

[DECEMBER 6, 2002] -- Update: IBM today entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rational Software for about $2.1 billion in cash. The acquisition is subject to Rational stockholder and ...

Kicking off the IBM Rational Software Development User Conference, in Grapevine, Texas, general manager of IBM Rational (and co-founder of Rational Software) Mike Devlin unveiled plans for the next ...

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 ...

A pioneer in application-development life-cycle tools, particularly those used for modeling, Rational has added more depth to Big Blue's vast software portfolio. In particular, it bolstered the ...

IBM's Rational division yesterday announced new features that will appear in its next generation toolset, code-named Atlantic. IBM Rational -- a division formed from the acquisition of Rational ...

Special Focus author [email protected] takes a look at the IBM-Rational buy a year later. With the $2.1 billion Rational purchase, IBM gained an array of tools aimed at helping companies build, ...

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 ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

A new Java development tool, the fruit of the recently integrated Rational software division, promises to make it easier for programmers to build custom business applications. Martin LaMonica is a ...

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 ...