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Once the acquisition is completed, IBM plans to:

Market and sell Rational's application development offerings worldwide
through the Rational sales force, which will become part of the IBM sales
force team;

Integrate Rational's products more tightly with IBM software products;

Continue Rational's investment in and support for open standards
technologies that support a variety of platforms, including Unix, Windows
and others; and

Accelerate investments in Rational products to better support the emerging
requirements of current customers, system integrators (SIs) and independent
software vendors (ISVs).

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