 | Level: Introductory Scott Laningham (scottla@us.ibm.com), Podcast Editor, IBM developerWorks
19 Feb 2008 Listen to a chat about the five-year anniversary of the
IBM® acquisition
of Rational®.
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In this 18-minute podcast, Grady Booch, Lee Nackman, and Walker Royce join
developerWorks' Scott Laningham and Michael O'Connell on this fifth
anniversary of the IBM acquisition of Rational to talk about what it has
meant for each company and for the software profession in general.
Refinement of Rational's focus, the expansion of IBM's software paradigm,
the further embracing of open source and open standards, the investment in
growing technical talent, and the Jazz platform are all discussed.
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About the guests  Grady Booch is an IBM Fellow. His lengthy list of accomplishments include
developing the Unified Modeling Language with Ivar Jacobson and James
Rumbaugh, he has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous
complex software-intensive systems around the world, is the author of six
best-selling books, and he has published several hundred articles on
software engineering, including papers published in the early 1980s that
originated the term and practice of object-oriented design.  Lee Nackman is responsible worldwide for IBM Rational's product strategy,
product development, and customer support. Previously, he was Rational's
CTO. He initiated the Eclipse open source tool platform and IBM
WebSphere® Studio tool products. He was a founding member of the
Board of Stewards for Eclipse.org. Prior to joining IBM Software Group in
1998, he held technical and management positions at IBM's Thomas J. Watson
Research Center. He was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 1998.
He has published 50 papers, a book, and holds two patents.  Walker Royce is vice president of Rational's services organization. For the
past seven years, he has managed large software engineering projects,
consulted with a broad spectrum of Rational's worldwide customer base, and
contributed to the management philosophy inherent in the Rational Unified
Process. The author of Software Project Management, A Unified
Framework (Addison Wesley Longman, 1998), he holds a bachelor's degree
in physics from the University of California, and a master's degree in
computer information and control engineering from the University of Michigan.
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Podcast credits | 
| | Scott Laningham, host of developerWorks podcasts, was previously editor of developerWorks newsletters. Prior to IBM, he was an award-winning reporter and director for news programming featured on Public Radio International, a freelance writer for the American Communications Foundation and CBS Radio, and a songwriter/musician. |
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