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I have done this 3 months ago and got a bunch of links in my email. Unless they changed something it’s not worth it.
And its not as if Rational tools are free, or even cheap…
Not free! gasp! I use PurifyPlus at the office, and it is a superb tool. At least they’ll let you try their software without paying first. Numega, wants all the money up front before even letting you LOOK at BoundsChecker, and if you don’t like it, they’ll refund your several thousand dollars you gave to them to try it.
There are no free tools i’m aware of that do what Purify, and BoundsChecker do.
I too wonder why this is OS News.
Besides – I’d rather pay the price of ClearCase and Rose not to have to use it. I’d sooner use a printer for my source/revision control than CC. It has given me and our team so many headaches that it’d consider it a 10$ shareware program.
Rational has done a very poor job keeping Purify up to date, whereas M.P. still works on Boundschecker and it’s still good.
Sadly Rational will do anything to get your personal information so they can unleash their sales force on you. What else do you do when you make overpriced bloatware tools and then sell them with a fear-based mantra “if you don’t use our process and our tools, your company is going to fail” ?
Of course, Rational has ZERO real ROI information on their process and tools.
With IBM’s emphasis on high-priced consulting services, Rational was a perfect match for them. None of Rational’s tools work well without consulting support.
Time to move on to other tools other than Rational/IBM. Don’t be a sucker. Don’t pay 100X more for a bunch of junk you simply don’t need.
I laughed when I read the comment by Sander Stoks about paying NOT to use Rational tools. Having suffered under ClearCase, ClearQuest and Rose for the past twelve months, I would pay to have their developers hunted down and killed!
Rational should hire some user interface people, not more “clever” developers.
Stay away, people, there are much better products in almost every category that Rational offers.
Rose 98 – now there was a tool. If it ran for more than 10 minutes whilst editing a large UML diagram, (we’re talking cross referenced between multiple sub diagrams) it was amazing!! I worked on a team that used it exclusivley for all design work. There was a gril who was the main architect and she could crash it in ablout 3 or 4 mouse clicks at, more or less, will. 2000 was better, but still not up to scratch.
We used it with Delphi, and to be honest my company was a Rational partner. Ratiional screwed them over royallyand then made the products rediculously priced to us unless we all took expensive training. Shame because the directors fell in love with RUP, and really crippled themselves because of it.
We ended up using a different modelling tool. Enterprise Architect. Well worth looking at, if only for the continuous development, regular free updates and mega low cost of ownership.
So, what do you use instead of Rational Purify?
Doesn’t it provide valuable help to developers?