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, a division of IBM Software based in Lexington, Mass., also plans to extend its best practices and methodologies, called Rational Unified Process, across IBM's other software brands Tivoli, ...

Specifically, the company is donating the meta model for describing development processes, the tools for customizing and creating processes, and a portion of the Rational Unified Process, said Roger ...