From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,1ca54a232b707b99,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ca54a232b707b99,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-03 09:49:46 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!gatekeeper.us.oracle.com!barrnet.net!rational.com!kdm From: kdm@rational.com (Kent Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.ada Subject: Rational Software Corporation and Martin Marietta's ACC form strategic partnership Date: 3 Oct 1994 16:41:11 GMT Organization: Rational Software Message-ID: <36pc77$5a9@rational.rational.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: puppy.rational.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: bga.com comp.object:7014 comp.lang.ada:6410 Date: 1994-10-03T16:41:11+00:00 List-Id: RATIONAL AND MARTIN MARIETTA'S ACC JOIN FORCES TO PROVIDE OBJECT-TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS; JIM RUMBAUGH JOINS RATIONAL Santa Clara, CA (October 3, 1994)--Rational Software Corporation and the Martin Marietta Information Group's Advanced Concepts Center (ACC) announced today the formation of a strategic partnership to further the growth and maturity of object technology. This alliance will foster the wide availability and acceptance of object technology throughout the world and will leverage the strengths of the ACC and Rational to benefit the overall market as well as individual customers. Rational will extend its Rational Rose family of products, which currently support the Booch method of object-oriented analysis and design developed by Grady Booch of Rational, to support the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) developed by James Rumbaugh et al. The ACC will extend its training, project management, and systems integration services, which currently support OMT, to support the Booch method. Rational and the ACC together will provide continuing support for both the Booch and OMT methodologies. "The ACC has an excellent reputation for providing quality services and has helped make OMT one of the leading object methodologies," said Paul D. Levy, president and chief executive officer at Rational. "By extending Rational Rose to support OMT, we will be able to provide all the capabilities of Rational Rose to organizations that have chosen to use the OMT method and notation." "By adding support for the Booch method to our existing OMT offerings, we will reach a larger segment of the rapidly growing community of object-technology users," said Ray Delaney, general manager of the ACC. "Our alliance with Rational ensures that customers of both companies will continue to receive the highest-quality products and services available while dramatically extending their options for implementing object technologies. As we combine our systems integration capabilities, training, and consulting with Rational's application-development products, we will be unmatched in delivering systems that align information technology with business vision." In a related development, Rational announced today that Dr. James Rumbaugh, chief developer of the OMT, is joining the company. Dr. Rumbaugh, who comes from the General Electric Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New York, will work with Grady Booch, creator of the Booch method, as part of the powerful ACC/Rational alliance to develop a unified, industry-standard method and notation for object-oriented analysis and design. "Rational is one of the leading providers of object-technology solutions," Rumbaugh commented. "I'm looking forward to working with Rational's experienced team of software engineers to help organizations improve productivity and reap the benefits of object technology." For the long term, Dr. Rumbaugh will work closely with Grady Booch and the methodologists at the ACC to create an industry-standard method that incorporates the best elements of object-oriented analysis and design methodologies. The OMT and the Booch method both will be fully supported and actively extended in the interim, and Rational and the ACC will continue to sell and support their current product lines. Both companies will collaborate to offer customers a migration path to subsequent versions of their products as the methods evolve and ultimately converge. "Jim Rumbaugh has been instrumental in furthering the use of object technology," said Booch. "By working together, we can evolve and merge the methods and notations into a strong, industry-standard methodology." "Users of object technology are faced with a choice of several different tools and methodologies," Levy said. "Jim Rumbaugh's arrival at Rational is part of an ongoing unification effort that was begun by Grady and Jim in recent years. By bringing together the chief architects of the two most widely accepted methods in the industry, we can provide a comprehensive solution for the development of complex software using object technology." "The OMT and the Booch method are the two clear industry- leading method-ologies for object technology, and together they represent an overwhelming share of the market," said Stephen McClure, an industry analyst with International Data Corporation in Framingham, Massachusetts. "Unifying the methods will help the object-oriented technology market grow more quickly, especially in industries, such as telecommunications, that are early adopters of object technology." For more information contact: Rational Software Corporation 2800 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051-0951 Tel. (408) 496-3600 or (800) RAT-1212, Fax (408) 496-3636 E-mail product_info@rational.com Martin Marietta Advanced Concepts Center 640 Freedom Business Center, King of Prussia, PA 19406 Tel. (610) 992-6200 or (800) 438-7246, Fax (610) 992-6299 E-mail solutions@ist.vf.ge.com