Rational Software Corporation and Martin Marietta's ACC form strategic partnership

Rational Software Corporation and Martin Marietta's ACC form strategic partnership

[Kent Mitchell]

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

Re: Rational Software Corporation and Martin Marietta's ACC form strategic partnership

[Gregory Aharonian]

    Where's Ada in the press release, given that MM's ACC ads in all of the
publications I see only mention C++ training and support?

Greg Aharonian