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 ...

IBM has agreed to pay approximately $2.1 billion in cash or $10.50 per share for Rational, which specializes in software-development tools. Rational will now become the fifth brand in IBM Software ...

IBM Rational on Tuesday will announce plans to standardize its suite of automated software quality tools on the Hyades open source platform and is unveiling concurrently a software quality campaign ...

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 ...

As part of its Power announcements yesterday, IBM introduced IBM Rational Power Appliance, a family of software appliances comprised of Power Express servers that are pre-loaded and pre-configured ...

IBM is also extending its IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing to a private cloud infrastructure for enterprise customers who prefer governance and control of their own cloud ...

IBM Rational today unveiled enhancements to a slew of tools designed to help companies break down the silos that exist in development organizations and track activities throughout the application ...

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 ...

IBM really did bring out all the news on day one of this show, so this morning a little space cleared for the partners to try and get a little attention. Before I mention a few of the IBM partners ...

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 ...

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 ...