Rational Software has updated its development tools to support Microsoft's .Net software strategy. Rational on Monday spruced up its XDE Professional tool with support for Microsoft's Visual Basic.Net ...

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Mike Devlin, general manager of IBM Rational, said the new release should be generally available by Dec. 31. The tool set aims to create a unified platform based on open standards that covers all the ...

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 ...

Changes from the previous versions revolve around improvements made "to help implement Service-Oriented Architectures, systems development and geographically distributed applications [sic]," IBM said.

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

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 ...