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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...