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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- IBM Corp. said Friday it will purchase Rational Software Corp., a maker of development tools, for $2.1 billion in cash -- its biggest software acquisition since purchasing Lotus in 1995.

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 ...

Rational Software slashed jobs and financial targets, but the company is planning on a rebound in the second half of its fiscal year. On Tuesday, the maker of software development tools told Wall ...

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 ...

When I was the programming columnist and programming tools reviewer at Windows Magazine, I would hear from the PR people at Pure Atria on at least a weekly basis. It became a joke between me and 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 ...

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 ...