Rational Supports Microsoft's Enterprise Frameworks and Templates
Announced Today with the Open Tools Platform
LEXINGTON, Mass., May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- As a premier member of the
Microsoft Visual Studio Integration Program, Rational Software (Nasdaq: RATL)
announced today it is working with Microsoft Corp. to achieve new levels of
integration between the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET Integrated Development
Environment (IDE) and Rational's complete life-cycle set of development tools,
including requirements analysis, visual modeling, change and configuration
management and testing.
Rational plans to make all of its products available to run inside the
Visual Studio.NET IDE. This support includes taking advantage of the
enterprise frameworks and templates, announced today by Microsoft, and the
Open Tools Platform.
"Microsoft and Rational are working together to integrate Rational tools
with the Visual Studio.NET IDE, creating the most complete life-cycle solution
for .NET developers," said Tom Button, vice president of the .NET Developer
Tools Group at Microsoft. "Rational Suite(R) is the enterprise life-cycle
complement to Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, providing the market-leading, and
fully integrated software development life-cycle solution for .NET development
teams."
Through its ongoing strategic relationship with Microsoft, Rational is
fully integrating its complete lifecycle solution with Visual Studio.NET. In
addition, today Rational Quantify(R), and Rational PureCoverage(R) offer
reliability and code coverage, testing, and performance profiling for the beta
version of Visual Studio.NET and will run inside the IDE in future releases.
"Rational has always been a close partner with Microsoft and has supported
development with Visual Studio as the enterprise complement to Visual Studio
for years," said Eric Schurr, senior vice president of Marketing at Rational.
"We will continue to do so with the release of Visual Studio.NET and achieve
even greater levels of integration through our close relationship with
Microsoft."
Rational also announced today support for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 in the
data modeling capability of Rational Rose(R) and Rational Suite(R)
DevelopmentStudio. As part of the efforts to fully support Microsoft .NET, it
will continue to develop support for Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers.
"We are excited to see Rational's commitment to supporting the .NET
Enterprise Servers, which offer the scalability, reliability, and
manageability required by today's agile businesses," said Chris Atkinson, vice
president of the .NET Enterprise Servers at Microsoft. "As Microsoft
increases its capabilities in the Enterprise domain, Rational, a
market-leading provider of enterprise-level lifecycle development solutions,
equips those customers targeting the .NET platform with the tools they need to
ensure their success."
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About Rational Software
Rational Software provides a platform for software development that speeds
time-to-market while improving software quality. This integrated, full
life-cycle solution combines software engineering best practices,
market-leading tools, and professional services. Ninety of the Fortune 100
and 49 of the Fortune e-50 build software with the Rational solution. This
open platform is extended by hundreds of partners providing more than
500 complementary products and services. IDC has recognized Rational as the
revenue leader in multiple application development and deployment markets for
four years in a row. Founded in 1981, Rational, one of the world's largest
software companies, had revenues of $815 million in its fiscal year ended
March, 2001 and employs more than 3,700 people around the world. Rational is
a component of the Nasdaq-100 Index(R). Additional information is available
on the Internet at http://www.rational.com .
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