Rational Machines is an enterprise founded by Paul Levy and
Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly
explicit modular architecture and
iterative development
Iterative and incremental development is any combination of both iterative design or iterative method and incremental build model for development.
Usage of the term began in software development, with a long-standing combination of the two terms ' ...
. It changed its name in 1994 to Rational Software, and was sold for US$2.1 billion (equivalent to current US$) to
IBM on February 20, 2003.
See also
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Rational Automation Framework
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Rational ClearCase
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Rational DOORS
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Rational Performance Tester
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Rational Rhapsody
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Rational Rose
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Rational Software Architect
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Rational Software Modeler
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Rational Synergy
Rational Synergy is a software tool that provides software configuration management (SCM) capabilities for all artifacts related to software development including source code, documents and images as well as the final built software executable and ...
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Rational Unified Process
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Defunct software companies
IBM acquisitions