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To: Ginko who wrote (2187)	2/25/1998 9:35:00 AM
From: Ken Merwin	Respond to of 3115

Just read: ---------- Wednesday February 25, 8:01 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Rational Software Corporation Rational Wins Jolt Product Excellence Award for Development of Unified Modeling Language Specification Recognition in Productivity Design & Management Tools Category is Sixth Jolt Award Received by Rational CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Rational(R) Software Corporation (Nasdaq: RATL - news) today announced that it has received a Jolt Product Excellence Award, in the Productivity Design and Management Tools category, for its development of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) specification. This marks Rational's sixth Jolt Product Excellence Award and eighth Productivity Award since the inception of the awards in 1990. ''The UML, the brain-child of Rational's 'three amigos' Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson and Jim Rumbaugh, is rapidly becoming the de facto modeling notation for object-oriented development,'' said Roger Smith, technical editor for Software Development. ''Although it is still evolving and maturing, the UML is arguably one of the most important things to happen in the OO modeling community. The IT industry finally has a generally accepted modeling notation -- something that past structured programming methodologists weren't able to achieve. In fact, several of this year's Jolt winners support the UML notation which shows that it has become a key enabling technology for innovative OO development.'' ''This award reflects the importance of visual modeling to the entire component-based development process and the need for a single modeling language,'' said Grady Booch, chief scientist for Rational Software. ''Because of the support and participation of numerous other application development tools vendors including Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Oracle, we were able to create a standard approach to modeling, which developers are finding useful for many types of software development, including development of real-time, embedded, enterprise, Web and IS applications. This unified effort led to rapid acceptance -- it's gratifying to see how quickly the UML is being incorporated into tools throughout the industry.'' For seven years, Software Development magazine and Jolt Cola have teamed up to recognize products so innovative that they ''jolted'' the industry with their significance. Each year at Software Development West the publication's editors and contributors award the top industry tools and books of the year with the Jolt Product Excellence Award, recognizing achievements in the areas of: design & management tools, languages/development environments, libraries/components, utilities, books, and ''special.'' Runners up are given the Productivity Award. Winners of the 1998 Jolt Awards will be featured in the May 1998 issue of Software Development magazine and can be viewed at: sd98.com. About Rational Software Corporation Rational Software Corporation develops, markets, and supports a comprehensive solution that automates the component-based development of software. Rational's solution includes an integrated family of products that automate development and quality assurance throughout the software lifecycle, a software process that can be configured to the specific needs of customers, and a range of consulting and support services. For more information on Rational's products and services, visit Rational's Web site at rational.com. NOTE: The word ''Rational'' and Rational's products are trademarks of Rational Software Corporation. References to other companies and their products use trademarks owned by the respective companies and are for reference purposes only. For more information contact: Rational Software Corporation 18880 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014 Tel. 408-863-9900 or 800-728-1212 Fax 408-863-4120 Fax-on-demand 800-758-5804 Pin # 113375 E-mail info@rational.com Web www.rational.com SOURCE: Rational Software Corporation