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IBM Rational's Atlantic to sail in December

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NEW DELHI: IBM Rational has recently announced the addition of Atlantic to its Rational portfolio. Atlantic is a unified platform based on open standards that can be used for all phases of application development. Said an online report.

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IBM has announced the official release of Atlantic by 31st December, this year. According to Melissa Webster, research director at IDC, IBM will get a time advantage if they can deliver by the said timeline, over Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 which is slated for release sometime next year.

Both the products offer a fully integrated application life-cycle management (ALM) platform.

Without overwhelming the user with too much technology, Atlantic gives users the flexibility to pick and choose tools applicable to their needs and customize their interface.

Atlantic offers support for open-source standards like Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0, Service Data Objects (SDO) and the Reusable Asset Specification (RAS).





To facilitate software development Atlantic offers Rational Software Architect, a comprehensive design and development tool for application architects; and IBM Rational Software Modeler, a new modeling and design tool offering full UML 2.0 support that allows for different views of the application tailored for architects, system analysts and designers. Said the report.

Atlantic will continue to offer support for different platforms offered by Microsoft, inspite of the fact that IBM is in direct competition with Microsoft.



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