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. agreed Friday to acquire longtime customer Rational Software Corp. for $2.1 billion, the largest in a recent string of acquisitions to bolster its software operations. The deal values ...

With its $2.1 billion acquisition of toolmaker Rational Software, IBM says it hopes to become its customers’ single source for building, deploying and managing business applications. With its $2.1 ...

[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 ...

IBM will pay $2.1 billion in cash to acquire modeling tools company Rational Software, in a bid to win over more application developers. Rational's business operations will be combined with IBM's ...

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 ...

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IBM said last week that the move demonstrates its continued support to leverage open-source technologies as the foundation for its portfolio of developer tools. News of IBM Rational's plan to support ...

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 ...

Rational Software just announced that it is acquiring NeuVis Software. With the acquisition of the Shelton, Connecticut-based company, Rational adds a model-based J2EE application construction ...

Big Blue plans to pay $2.1 billion in cash for Rational Software, the leading seller of tools to create models of applications and databases before programmers actually start coding. Martin LaMonica ...