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This article is about the software company that specializes in software architecture solutions. Not to be confused with
Rational Systems
.
Rational Machines
is an enterprise founded by Paul Levy and
Mike Devlin
in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly
explicit modular architecture
and
iterative development
. It changed its name in 1994 to
Rational Software
, and was sold for US$2.1 billion (equivalent to current US$3.48 billion
[1]
) to
IBM
on February 21,
[2]
2003.
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