Rational Software

Rational Software Corporation (Nasdaq: RATL), the e-development company, helps organizations develop and deploy software for e-business, e-infrastructure, and e-devices through a combination of tools, services and software engineering best practices. Rational's e-development solution helps organizations overcome the e-software paradox by accelerating time to market while improving quality. Rational's integrated solution simplifies the process of acquiring, deploying and supporting a comprehensive software development platform, reducing total cost of ownership. IDC has recognized Rational as the market revenue leader in multiple segments of the software development life-cycle management market for four years in a row. Founded in 1981, Rational, one of the world's largest Internet software companies, had revenues of $572.2 million in its fiscal year that ended in March 2000 and employs approximately 3,000 people around the world. Additional information is available on the Internet at http://www.rational.com.

profile from featured press release August 28, 2000

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