Sunday, July 29, 2018

IBM and Rational Software

I will begin this posting by referring you to the Wikipedia entry for Rational Software.

I was working in Silicon Valley in the Nineties - and I can remember the impact of Rational on it.

I could see the programmers in the company I worked for - were producing lousy software. And I could see Rational had a method for producing good software - that they were not interested in. A bit crazy, yes?

But the craziness got worse, when IBM bought Rational. It bought a fine company with a brilliant future - and did nothing with it.

IBM had shot itself in the foot - once again!

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