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Thursday, August 10th, 2006
IBM Snaps up FileNet too
Today IBM announced that they were acquiring FileNet Corporation for $1.6 Billion. IBM hadn’t signaled that there would be this kind of acquisition activity on the horizon. This is IBM’s third acquisition in 2 weeks. IBM’s software group has bought more than 50 companies in the past 10 years, and this is IBM’s largest purchase in […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2006
IBM Rational Application Developer #1 IDE, Visual Studio is #2
Evans Data Corp released a report ranking IDEs based on features and developer satisfaction. Rational Application Developer For WebSphere (RADW aka WSAD) has the lead for the second year running over all other IDEs. That’s good news, I guess. And RADW is a slick environment for J2EE, with great debugging, support for all sorts of types […]