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Find and connect with others who are successfully teaching, developing, or doing research with Rational products.

Connect online

Connect and interact with academics and like-minded people. Create your own personal profile and custom home page to get instant access to the individuals, groups, feeds, tags, bookmarks, and blogs that you care about.


Join the development community for the Rational Jazz initiative, where you can learn about Jazz, follow development projects and milestones, get the latest product betas, and interact with others.


Join a community focused on programming languages, such as C/C++, COBOL, EGL and RPG.


Participate in a live webcast or teleconference and talk to the experts.


Exchange ideas and share solutions in a developerWorks forum.


Share and collaborate in a developerWorks space.

Connect in person

Meet like-minded people in your area and around the world.