IBM Rational Application Developer was created on 2005-01-07.
Yes. There are many IDE's available for developing java programs/applications. Some are: 1. Eclipse 2. Net Beans 3. IBM WSAD - Websphere Studio Application Developer 4. IBM RAD - Rational Application Developer Etc..
IBM Rational Team Concert was created in 2008-06.
IBM Rational Software Modeler was created on 2004-10-13.
IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management was created in 2011-06.
IBM WebSphere Application Server was created on 2000-08-31.
IBM Rational is a service provided by IBM. IBM Rational helps with software and systems development. It is supposed to help software be more profitable and and improve productivity.
Off course Netbeans... Netbeans is supported by Sun.. i.e. that every new feature in Java is done immediately by Netbeans unlike Eclipse... No...? I beg to defer :) Eclipse is a better IDE based on which many of the advanced IDE's for Java are build like WSAD (Websphere Studio Application Developer) or RAD (Rational Application Developer) both are IBM products for advanced Java programming. They contain many features that Netbeans does not have..
IBM launched their WebSphere Application Server software on 22 June 1998. The software was initially created by Donald Ferguson. It is the flagship product within IBM's WebSphere software suite.
IBM WebSphere® Studio Application Developer is a comprehensive integrated development environment for visually designing, constructing, testing and deploying Web services, portals and Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications. WebSphere Studio Application Developer accelerates J2EE development with a complete set of high productivity tools, templates and wizards.
Req Pro was a part of the original Rational suite (Rational Rose, Rational Clear Case). DOORS Was a major competitor to Req Pro, later IBM bought it and renamed it to Rational DOORS. So now you have two requirement tools under IBM. DOORS is generally used by Systems Engineering companies and ReqPro by IT companies. Presently IBM is developing another product based on their open source intiative - jazz.net; which is called Rational Requirements Composer. RRC can be considered next generation version of ReqPro
Rational Unified Process
IBM BASIC was created in 1981.