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The announcement that IBM is buying Swedish-based system development tools company, Telelogic, can be seen, in part, as signifying the increasing importance of embedded systems to the enterprise. European editor, Dick Selwood, looks at the deal and its possible implications for the embedded software engineer.
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Modelling From the Belly of the Whale
by Dick Selwood, Embedded Technology Journal
IBM has announced that, subject to the usual legal caveats, it is buying Telelogic, the Swedish-based system development tools company. IBM’s Rational Software operation, where Telelogic’s products will find a home, was itself acquired by IBM only four years ago. And it was only just over a year ago that Telelogic bought I-Logix, whose Rhapsody model-based development tool is one of the leaders in the embedded space. So, rather like one of those drawings of a little fish being swallowed by a bigger one and that being swallowed by one yet bigger again, Rhapsody is now in the belly of the IBM whale.
Rational was itself assembled from a number of companies, including the Swedish Objectory AB, a pioneer of Object Oriented development, and was a major player in developing the Unified Modelling Language (UML 1.0) as part of the UML Partners consortium. UML, which was donated to the Object Management Group (OMG) in 1997, was seen mainly as a tool for developing systems at the enterprise level. Rational, like much of IBM, is focuses on large organisations, providing the tools for the design, implementation and maintenance of systems that keep companies functioning and carrying out their core missions.
Telelogic, like Rational, also has an enterprise level focus, but mainly for technical companies. When we looked at the company in Embedded Sweden late last year, we explained that it concentrates on its original business of telecommunications, on aerospace and defence, and it is also active in the automotive field. It is Telelogic’s success in these areas that seems to have been one of the attractions for IBM; the other being the tools they have developed or bought that complement those in the Rational portfolio, although there are also some significant product overlaps. [more]
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