The new tools and enhancements make it easier for development organizations to build, extend, integrate, modernize, and deploy software and software-based systems. The new set of products include a UML-based visual modeling tool, a design and construction tool, and a comprehensive IDE that enables developers to quickly design, develop, analyze, test, profile, and deploy Web, Web services, Java, J2EE, and portal applications.
Rational releases seven new products for Development Platform
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These aren’t out. I read that article and I don’t understand why they say they will be out this month. Availability is said to be on December 3rd, following their release tour
See the bottom of this Oct 13 news release:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/swnews/swnews.nsf/n/pmcs65kjth?Open…
Events:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/events_1.html
November 30
December 1
December 2
Will it run on Linux?
I find it pretty sad IBM has all that “OSS/Linux” talk but doesn’t make such a big project as the rational tools avaliable for the Linux platform.
Victor.
The IDE replaces Websphere Application Developer (WSAD). WSAD was based on Eclipse 2.x. Rational Application Developer (RAD) is based on Eclipse 3.x, so yes, they run on Linux.
I’m sure just like any other company they research if it will be a viable investment in porting their product to other platforms. Just because they do a lot with OSS/Linux doesn’t mean they will automatically port everything over; there has to be a return on their investment. When they push OSS/Linux in the server room they also push their servers as part of the whole package; a good investment for them.
Yes. Look at the PDFs. It supports SuSE and Red Hat.
Rational sotware enginnering from one standpoint holds promise beyond just being a processes, tool, and notation, for rapid application development. It worth using if your goal is to “keep up with” technology. Oraginzations that keep up with technology are better able to handle information demand, however it’s partly foolish to search to deeply in this area, so rational tools can keep your head above the water and stay aware of more substantial change in IT, which nobody can predict.
It’s like a get out of jail free card. Yet I think that organizations should strive to gradually find their own information technology answers. They should utilize commodity software and hardware on the periphery because there is more reward for the customer in the progress of commodity software. Companies should not get bogged down in vendor products, so rational tools give companies the skills to keep up, but keep it light. You don’t want to make too serious of an investment in IT, just enough to keep up and ballance risk.
You only want to take IT very seriously when you are in control of the R&D. This is rare. The decentralization of R&D can’t happen yet, it would require pure sentient AI. Something which we will not see for another twenty years.