Stories about: Rational Software

The Java tools market is in flux, with the recent acquisitions of CodeGear and BEA Systems altering the landscape, leaving developers with fewer independent tools choices.

IBM's Rational Software unit Monday listed 20 products that will use its new collaboration technology for development teams whose members are separated geographically or are dispersed throughout a company facility.

Mike Milinkovich is the executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, a nonprofit that oversees an open source community focused on application development tools. Founded by IBM in 2001, Eclipse became independently managed in 2004 and now boasts that more than 4 million people worldwide use Eclipse and Eclipse-based products. EBay, for example, used Eclipse to build much of its online architecture. Milinkovich this week discussed the Eclipse organization and its goals with Senior Writer Jon Brodkin.

IBM has completed its approximately US$845 million tender offer for shares of tools maker Telelogic, IBM said.

IBM's next-generation mainframe unveiled Tuesday is 50% faster than its predecessor and can double performance for CPU-intensive jobs, while offering dramatic improvements in energy efficiency, according to Big Blue.

Even by the bloated standards of high-tech mergers and acquisitions, Microsoft's proposed purchase of Yahoo appears to be the largest ever among technology firms. It is certainly Microsoft's largest. The company mostly buys smaller firms for less than a billion dollars to fill in gaps in its product lineup. But that may be changing. Last year, for instance, Microsoft bought Seattle online advertising firm aQuantive for US$6 billion, its largest ever until the long-rumored Yahoo deal was unveiled on Friday.

IBM has added a new capability to its virtualization platform that will allow Linux applications to run on IBM's Unix servers, the company announced Tuesday.

European competition regulators said Tuesday that have stopped the clock in their in-depth investigation into IBM's planned US$745 million takeover of Swedish software maker Telelogic.

IBM is expected today to announce a set of Rational software products for modernizing applications running on its flagship System Z mainframes.

IBM's Rational software unit announced that it has awarded grants to three universities for projects that use its open-source Jazz collaboration technology to help developers work together more effectively.

IBM has announced software and services designed to help organisations with 1,000 to 5,000 staff quickly and easily install tools to manage networks and standardise software development and delivery practices.