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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I had to opportunity to chat with Gina Poole, VP Rational marketing at IBM on the communities play in supporting developers, partners, customers and children in need. Software developers, architects ...

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 ...

Adds Ada IDE for mixed Ada/C/C++ application and embedded software development. Atego, the leading independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative development tools for engineering complex, ...

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 ...

IBM has updated its Rational CLM software to work in clusters and has introduced some new cloud-based development management services With a focus on both cloud and mobile, IBM has updated its ...

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 ...