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 ...

A new solution, IBM Rational Rapid Developer 2003, promises a lot of design power along with built-in use of best practices for designing software effectively. Rapid Developer offers a very different ...

Borland Software Corp. and IBM announced upgrades to their development tools this week designed to support heterogeneous environments and more closely link software creation to business goals. IBM ...

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 ...

Executives from both companies positioned their product lines as complementary. "We focus on language-based tools [around Java, C, C++, Cobol. Rational has always provided surrounding ...

CA announced a new software lifecycle management tool that integrates its change management solution, CA Endevor Software Change Manager, with IBM's Rational Developer for System z V7.6 (RDz), the IBM ...

IBM Rational on Tuesday will further its integration with IBM brands through a new release of the IBM Rational Rapid Developer tool. The company’s IBM Rational Rapid Developer 2003 release 2 will ...

Visual Studio .NET is a complex and far-reaching design environment. But it focuses just on helping you build code effectively. Rational XDE Developer makes the development environment more complex by ...

IBM on Tuesday announced a new suite of software quality tools, the Rational Quality Management Portfolio. The company promises the new tools will improve the software development process and, in ...

The Rational tools suite came in first in six categories and had the best overall score in Evans Data's survey In a worldwide survey of more than 1,200 developers last month, IBM’s Rational tools ...

It's opening Sunday night down here in Orlando at IBM's 2008 Rational Software Developer Conference. Having attended and reported on this event since 2004 I thought I would be able to make a few ...