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 ...

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 ...

HCL Technologies (HCLT) has chosen IBM Rational software to strengthen its software development capabilities. IBM Rational tools would speed up software development time by automation, process ...

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 ...