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 ...

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 ...

Sabbah is a 30-year veteran of the company and an architect of its open-source policy, as well as overseer of its mainstream WebSphere middleware. While acting as head of development for WebSphere, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

With IBM's Rational Software Developer Conference 2009 less than a month away now, the company is making reasonably enthusiastic noises about its new software platform (and related services no less) ...

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 ...