Rational acquires Wisconsin-based object-oriented software-engineering firm.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 1995--Rational Software Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :RATL RATL Raising Achievement Transforming Learning (Specialist Schools and Academies Trust) RATL Renaldo and The Loaf (music duo) RATL Rapsyn-Associated Transmembrane Linker RATL Rockin' ATLanta ) announced Monday that it has acquired Palladio Software Corp., a software-engineering firm that provides tools and training for object-oriented development. Under the agreement, Palladio shareholders will receive an unspecified Adj. 1. unspecified - not stated explicitly or in detail; "threatened unspecified reprisals" specified - clearly and explicitly stated; "meals are at specified times" amount of cash and shares of Rational common stock. In addition, all of Palladio's employees will join Rational, and Palladio's products and technology will be owned by Rational. Palladio was the original developer of a Windows-based object-oriented analysis and design Object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) is a software engineering approach that models a system as a group of interacting objects. Each object represents some entity of interest in the system being modeled, and is characterised by its class, its state (data elements), and its product that Rational licensed and integrated with its Rational Rose technology as part of a joint technology and distribution agreement with Palladio in October 1992. Since then, the two companies have collaborated on the development and enhancement of the Rational Rose family of products. The Rational Rose product family is a suite of graphical, object-oriented, software-engineering tools for analysis, design and implementation of software applications. The tools support an iterative development A discipline for developing systems based on producing deliverables often. Each iteration, consisting of requirements, analysis & design, implementation and testing, results in the release of an executable subset of the final product, which grows incrementally from iteration to cycle and include capabilities for generating and reverse engineering C++, Ada, Smalltalk, Gupta SQLWindows and Trinzic ObjectPro code. There are more than 10,000 Rational Rose users worldwide. Palladio's Object System/CRC product, a domain analysis and design tool that supports responsibility-driven design, will be integrated with Rational Rose. Object System/CRC allows users to build a model of their application with CRC cards (Class Responsibility Collaboration card) An object-oriented design method that uses ordinary 3x5 index cards. Developed by Ward Cunningham at Textronix, a card is made for each class containing responsibilities (knowledge and services) and collaborators (interactions and then integrate the model into Rational Rose. "This acquisition is a natural extension of the partnership we have developed with Palladio over the past two years," said Paul D. Levy, president and chief executive officer of Rational. "Palladio's software engineers have had extensive experience in developing and delivering object-oriented products and training. This agreement will enable us to take full advantage of this expertise as we continue to enhance and extend our object-technology solutions." "The kinds of tools that customers need for large, complex, software-engineering projects require a substantial investment," said Jon Hopkins Jon Hopkins writes and performs his own music, melody-led electronica. He was born and brought up in London and started playing the piano when he was five. By the age of twelve was studying piano at London's Royal College of Music. , president and founder of Palladio. "Combining with Rational gives us access to resources that will help us to more effectively develop object technology and the powerful tools that exploit it. Our two years of joint development with Rational gave us confidence that Rational shares our commitment to product excellence." Hopkins is a well-known figure in the software-engineering industry and a prominent speaker at leading object-oriented conferences nationwide. He has extensive experience in developing tools, conducting training courses and managing and deploying large software systems. Hopkins will join Rational's professional-services organization and work closely with Rational's other industry leaders, including Grady Booch Grady Booch (born February 271955) is a software designer, a software methodologist and a design pattern enthusiast. He is chief scientist of Rational Software (now a part of IBM) and a series editor for Benjamin/Cummings. and Jim Rumbaugh. Rational Software Corp. provides software-engineering solutions to ensure the success of customers in developing and maintaining complex software systems that are strategically important to their businesses. Rational Software Corp. has headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. and regional sales and support offices worldwide. For more information contact: Rational Software Corp. 2800 San Thomas Expressway Santa Clara, CA 95051-0951 Tel: 408/496-3600 or 800-RAT-1212 Fax: 408/496-3636 E-mail: product_info@rational.com CONTACT: Rational Software Corp., Santa Clara Kara Kara (kär`ə), river, c.140 mi (230 km) long, NE European and NW Siberian Russia. It flows N from the N Urals into the Kara Sea, forming part of the traditional border between European and Asian Russia. It is navigable in its lower course. Myers, 408/496-3891, E-mail: karam@rational.com |
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