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To: Roy F who wrote (2612)	8/3/1998 4:00:00 PM
From: Hans-Erik Eriksson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3115

Roy, thanks for the list. All the companies mentioned have some sort of CASE tool products but if you narrow Rationals niche market into "object-oriented/component-based requirement analysis, system analysis, design and testing" (everything except the programming development tools) I don't think most of them have directly competing products with Rational. Instead many of these companies have development environments that plug into e.g. Rational Rose and that lack support for requirements planning or testing. My viewpoint is from Europe, and here Rational is becoming the "obvious choice" for this kind of tools. Sort of the "Microsoft of high-level CASE tools" - at least for the stock price that's hopefully a very good thing :-). Best, Hans-Erik