IBM Corp. last week agreed to acquire development tools vendor Rational Software Corp. for $2.1 billion. The deal marks the second largest software acquisition in Big Blue's history. Analysts say ...

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 ...

[DECEMBER 6, 2002] -- Update: IBM today entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rational Software for about $2.1 billion in cash. The acquisition is subject to Rational stockholder and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer's OnStrategies blog. Tony is a senior analyst atOvum. His profile is here. You can reach him here. Ration al Software Conference 2009 last week was supposed ...