Purify/Quanity - The Rational Story - But How Rational is Rational?

Rational is a software division of IBM that makes the Purify and Quantify products. Their products are built around the concept of Rational Unified Process (TM). Rational was founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 and sold to IBM in February 2003, for $2.1 billion. On announcement of the deal, IBM SVP Steve Mills remarked: "Rational is an important element of our e-business on-demand initiative...a perfect complement to our existing four brands - WebSphere, DB2, Lotus and Tivoli."

Products Rational is known for:

• Purify
• Quanitfy
• Rational Rose
• Pure coverage

Read more from their library below.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/298.html