Blogging Roller

eWeek published an interesting series of articles today on the ongoing integration of Rational Software Corp. into IBM. Rational Digs Up Gems describes how Rational's Grady Booch is working to identify IBM Research projects to be productized, such as hyperdimensional programming (AOP). Rational's Devlin Eyes Tight IBM Ties discusses bringing Model Driven Architecture to the Visual Basic-type programmers of the world. Rational, IBM Model a New World analyzes the merger's impact on the enterprise software and dev-tools markets.