Announcing the new Rational IDEs on SmartCloud Enterprise (IBM Rational community)

Announcing the new Rational IDEs on SmartCloud Enterprise

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The Rational integrated development environments (IDE) v9 are now available on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, offering application developers and architects simple and flexible deployment of desktop IDEs. With the Rational Team Concert client for Eclipse v4.0.3 pre-installed and configured, these images not only deliver a comprehensive suite of tools & capabilities on the cloud but also the promise of increased team agility and productivity when combined with Rational's Collaborative Lifecycle Management solution.

This new set of virtualized development tools are based on the following products:

Rational® Application Developer v9.0: Supports development and maintenance of Java®, Java EE, portal, web and Web 2.0, OSGi, web services, SOA, mobile web, and hybrid mobile applications.
Rational® Developer for System z® v9.0: Supports development and maintenance of System z, CICS, IMS, DB2 and Batch applications.
Rational® Developer for AIX® and Linux® v9.0: Supports both C and C++ applications development and maintenance that run partly or fully on IBM AIX® or Linux® on IBM Power Systems™ hardware, as well as x86 Linux and development and maintenance of COBOL applications on IBM AIX®.
Rational® Developer for i v9.0: Supports several language options for IBM i platform (formerly known as AS400), in addition to multiple application modernization techniques such as re-facing of 5250 interfaces and service-enabling RPG and COBOL procedures.
Rational® Developer for the Enterprise v9.0: Provides a comprehensive development environment for heterogeneous enterprise application development with workloads spanning enterprise architectures and languages.
Rational® Software Architect for WebSphere® Software v9.0: Support unified design, modeling and development for designing and developing IBM WebSphere® applications.

You can find more information on developing applications in the IBM SmartCloud Enteprise using Rational software by reading this developerWorks® article: 'Develop applications in the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise using Rational software'.