Yep, still tough times. These economic difficulties help the wheat separate itself from the chaff, and RATL's among the strong with their cash and steady (as far as we know) growth.
This seems like about as sweet an endorsement as one can ask for:
biz.yahoo.com
eBay(R) Standardizes on Rational ClearCase(R) to Manage Code and Content Throughout its e-Business Site
LEXINGTON, Mass., March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Rational Software (Nasdaq: RATL - news), the e-development company, today announced that eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY - news) has standardized on Rational ClearCase to meet its software configuration management needs within the company. The solution allows eBay, the leading online trading community, to manage the development and control of code and content for its market leading e-business application.
Through eBay's online trading environment, the company's more than 22 million registered users in 150 countries can buy and sell items in more than 4,600 categories. As the most popular shopping site on the Internet, eBay must respond to the ever-changing needs and demands of its users. To do that, eBay needed a comprehensive software configuration management solution that was extremely reliable and included multi-platform support.
At any given time, multiple weekly releases are in the development pipeline within eBay's software development organization. Rational ClearCase's parallel development capabilities allow developers to work on releases concurrently. In addition, the solution gives eBay the ability to manage Web content and code artifacts on its site. eBay's development cycle is one release per week for code and two releases per day for content.
``Rational ClearCase has helped us to efficiently manage concurrent projects, and meet our aggressive product development schedules,'' said Mary Hoover, director of Release Management at eBay.
Rational's e-development services worked with eBay to create a usage model tailored specifically to the company's unique software development environment.
``eBay is one of the most sophisticated, demanding e-business sites on the web and to keep it competitive they need to develop high-quality software as quickly as possible,'' said Eric Schurr, senior vice president of marketing at Rational Software. ``We're thrilled that Rational ClearCase and our e- development services have enabled eBay to better address their customers' needs.''
About Rational Software Corporation
Rational Software Corporation® (Nasdaq: RATL - news), the e-development company, helps organizations develop and deploy software for e-business, infrastructure, and devices and embedded systems through a combination of tools, services and software engineering best practices. Rational's e- development solution helps organizations overcome the software development 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 revenue leader in multiple application development and deployment markets for four years in a row. Founded in 1981, Rational, one of the world's largest software companies, had revenues of $754 million in its twelve months ended December, 2000 and employs more than 4,000 people around the world. Rational is a component of the Nasdaq-100 Index®. Additional information is available on the Internet at www.rational.com.
About eBay
eBay is the world's largest online trading community. Founded in 1995, eBay created a powerful marketplace for the sale of goods and services by a passionate community of individuals and small businesses. On any given day, there are millions of items for sale on the site across thousands of categories. eBay enables trade on a local, national and international basis with local sites in 60 markets in the U.S. and country specific sites in the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, Austria, Japan and Australia. With the acquisition of Half.com in July 2000, eBay's community now benefits from a marketplace combining traditional auction and fixed-price trading.
SOURCE: Rational Software Corporation |
