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February 2007 Rational Global User Group Community Newsletter
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Rational News
 

NASA Eyes Open Standard Software for Next-Generation James Webb Space Telescope
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is using IBM software to develop the software and systems that will operate the James Webb Space Telescope.

Dr. Ivar Jacobson to speak at the upcoming NYC Rational User Group on February 28th!
Dr. Ivar Jacobson, co-founder of Jacobson Consulting International co-founder of Jaczone AB, is one of the great thought-leaders in the software world where he has made several seminal contributions. He is one of the fathers of components and component architecture, use cases, modern business engineering, the Unified Modeling Language and the Rational Unified Process. Ivar Jacobson is the principal author of five influential and best-selling books. He has written more than 50 papers and he is a regular keynote speaker at large conferences around the world and act as an advisor to large corporations world-wide. If you are in the NYC tri- state area, and would like to attend this meeting you may register by clicking here.

You can now rate IBM Rational products on the Programmers.com Website! So go logon and rate your favorite products!

Success Stories
 

Case study: TurboConsult accelerates software testing with IBM Rational
TurboConsult introduced IBM Rational Functional Tester, Manual Tester, ClearQuest and ClearCase to plan, manage, document and automate the testing of software developed using Eclipse.

Case study: IBM Express Managed Services transforms its provisioning process to improve customer service and better meet market demands.
IBM Express Managed Services employed an efficient, reliable provisioning system that would accelerate business processes by implementing IBM Workplace FormsTM, Version 2.5 software.

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Rational Edge
 

The Rational Edge is IBM's monthly, online magazine for the software development community. Focused on all aspects of the software development lifecycle, The Rational Edge delivers practical insight and commentary from IBM Rational thought leaders, which helps readers understand concepts behind the products and services that define the Rational brand. The magazine currently has 137,000 subscribers worldwide, and welcomes submissions from experts in one or more areas of software development.

More information can be found at www.ibm.com/developerworks/rationa l/rationaledge/ .

User Groups
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Rational User Group Community Statistics:
    RUG Community Membership: 10,370
    RUG Active User Group: 90
    RUG Newsletter Subscribers: 6461

Tell us about your last meeting.
Share with us any updates on your user group!  Did you recently present at a technical conference?  We are looking for feedback on how our community is doing. We want to hear success stories about how your groups and members are being successful.  Share ideas of how you get attendance to your meetings, how you locate speakers.  We are part of a very dynamic community and this is great forum for us to share our ideas. Please send your information to info@rational-ug.org.

Events
 

Accelerating Global Software Delivery - Boston, MA
Technical
15 Feb 2007 - 15 Feb 2007

Architecture; Design & Construction Using the IBM Rational Delivery Platform - Vancouver, BC
Technical
15-Feb-07

Architecture; Design & Construction Using the IBM Rational Delivery Platform - Victoria, BC
Technical
16-Feb-07

Architecture; Design & Construction Using the IBM Rational Delivery Platform - Seattle, WA
Technical
20-Feb-07

Effective Software Testing: Tools and Strategies for Project Success - Louisville, KY
Technical
20-Feb-07

Architecture; Design & Construction Using the IBM Rational Delivery Platform - Washington D.C.
Technical
22-Feb-07

Dr. Ivar Jacobson in his own words - NYC Rational User Group Meeting
Technical
28-Feb-07

Architecture; Design & Construction Using the IBM Rational Delivery Platform - Calgary, Alberta
Technical
28-Feb-07

Architecture; Design & Construction Using the IBM Rational Delivery Platform - Edmonton, AB
Technical
1-Mar-07

Effective Software Testing: Tools and Strategies for Project Success - Phoenix; AZ
Technical
1-Mar-07

EclipseCon 2007
Technical
05 Mar 2007 - 08 Mar 2007

Architecture; Design & Construction Using the IBM Rational Delivery Platform - Albany, NY
Technical
8-Mar-07

Education & Training
 

Education Zone
This month learn how your training dollars will go further in 2007 with $500 savings on public software classes, Save twice with an IBM Education Pack - online account, Don't delay enroll now for the Rational Software development conference, Most Requested Rational Software Courses, Rational Tester Boot Camp,Object Oriented Analysis and Design and Rational Software Architect Boot Camp,Rational Software Architect and Extensibility Boot Camp,Essentials of the Rational Unified Process V7.0,Rational ClearCase UCM Boot Camp (Windows). Find the right courses, conferences, and savings plans to help with your skill building needs from IBM Training. "

Grow Skills Early. Save Big!
Your training dollars will go further with $500 savings on Rational public classes scheduled in the U.S. in first quarter 2007 and valued at $2000 or greater. What better time to attend Rational training when your business goals are set and your IT needs are immediate? Get award- winning training from IBM instructors/developers to help build your skills portfolio long before budgets are trimmed. Enroll now through March 28, 2007, in any Rational or eligible IBM publicly scheduled software classes in the U.S. and receive $500 off the tuition. At enrollment, reference priority code 6N2KJO4W to receive your discount.

Literature and Resources
 

IBM Press -- Be Sure You're Taking Advantage of Special 40% User Group Discount!
IBM Press represents the best books, written by the best researchers, engineers, and developers. Simply Link to ""Member Benefits"" as a registered site user, and follow the instructions to obtain your discount. The IBM Press library has the breadth and depth of coverage to support you throughout your career.

New Hot-Off-the-Press Releases from IBM include "Project Management with the IBM(r) Rational Unified Process(r): Lessons From The Trenches", authored by R. Dennis Gibbs and " Implementing IBM (r) Rational(r)ClearQuest(r): An End-to-End Deployment Guide", authored by Christian D. Buckley, Darren W. Pulsipher and Kendall Scott.

Trial Downloads
Rational V7 downloads
Visit developerWorks and test-drive the new IBM Rational V7 desktop products. As part of the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform, the Rational V7 desktop products offer new capabilities for empowering global teams to better implement and manage the delivery of software and systems architectures with improved lifecycle quality. These new architecture management and quality management capabilities enable distributed software and systems development teams to speed SOA results, ensure global architectural integrity and software quality, simplify modular systems development, and improve "consumability" from the latest Eclipse community standards. Download the latest trial software or evaluate some of these products in our online environment with no installation required.

New! Rational SOA Testing Open Beta
IBM Rational invites you to participate in our open beta program for upcoming Quality Management solutions for testing SOA applications. These new testing tools for SOA enable the automation, creation, execution and analysis of functional, regression and performance testing of non-GUI business processes, composite applications and services.

eKit
New eKit: IBM Rational Systems Development Solution
Systems teams have a new way to improve product quality and communication: The new IBM Rational Systems Development Solution eKit. Download the complimentary eKit for access to educational white papers, customer examples, tutorials, informative Webcasts, and best practices for designing, building and managing systems. From start to finish, at every stage in your projects, Rational Systems Development Solution can help your company reach its full potential. Download today and start building better systems faster: http://www.ibm.com/software/info/sdp/ systems/index.jsp? S_TACT=105AGX65&S_CMP=NWSLTR&ca=dnl- 3002kit1

 

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