Big Blue plans to pay $2.1 billion in cash for Rational Software, the leading seller of tools to create models of applications and databases before programmers actually start coding. Martin LaMonica ...

IBM has agreed to pay approximately $2.1 billion in cash or $10.50 per share for Rational, which specializes in software-development tools. Rational will now become the fifth brand in IBM Software ...

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