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 ...

NEW YORK -- IBM Corp. said Friday it will purchase Rational Software Corp., a maker of development tools, for $2.1 billion in cash -- its biggest software acquisition since purchasing Lotus in 1995.

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 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 ...

CRN:: Solution providers have said that since Rational became a part of IBM, its tools don't support Microsoft products as much as they support the J2EE platform. What's the story there? Devlin: ...

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 ...

IBM announced the completion of its $2.1 billion acquisition of Rational Software Corp. Friday, making Rational an IBM brand. The deal, made official at the close of the market Thursday and announced ...

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 ...

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) ...