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Evaluate: Rational Business Developer

IBM® Rational® Business Developer is designed to meet the needs of business developers, providing a simplified, highly productive, and comprehensive development environment for the EGL language. It includes tools to develop, test, and debug EGL applications and services that can be generated as Java™ or COBOL and deployed to various application servers, such as WebSphere Application Server, and enterprise environments on System z and Power Systems. EGL also simplifies development of open standards-based Web 2.0 style applications, thus providing a common language across both client and server.

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This trial has all features enabled. Download the trial for an evaluation period of 60 days.

Operating system	Version	Size	Method	Download
Windows, Linux	V8.5	90MB*	Installation Manager (recommended)
Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, Windows™	V8.5	240MB-2.6GB	HTTP \| Download Director

* IBM Installation Manager is about 90MB. The size of the trial code itself and the download time required varies according to the product components you select. The estimated download time using Download Director over a 1.5Mbps connection is approximately 12 hours to 17 hours, significantly less when using Installation Manager.

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