Rational organization theory is the idea that an organization, such as a business, is a tool for achieving a definable goal or set of goals. A rational organization uses a formal structure to define ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

Some 4,000 IBM Rational customers and channel partners (up 20 percent from 2009) flocked to the Dolphin Hotel at Disney World in Orlando June 6 - 10 for the Innovate 2010 conference where they caught ...

Rational Software on Tuesday introduced a new software development tool that is compatible with software from Microsoft, IBM and Sun Microsystems. The software company, which has worked mostly with ...

When I was the programming columnist and programming tools reviewer at Windows Magazine, I would hear from the PR people at Pure Atria on at least a weekly basis. It became a joke between me and the ...

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 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 ...