Rational Inc, Santa Clara, California, will offer a new version of its Rational Rose software engineering tool from next month. Release 2.0 supports Booch ’93 notation, has a common interface for personal computers and Unix machines, syntax and semantic checking, integration with external configuration management systems, querying, and filtering and browsing mechanisms. Rational Rose costs $750 on personal computers and $4,000 on Sun Microsystems Inc workstations: upgrades are $250 on personal computers, free for Sun users. It has also added a Rational Rose/C++ development tool, which costs $1,100 on personal computers, $5,300 on Sun workstations. Existing Rational users can get the new tool for $600 and $1,300 respectively.
