IBM Rational Tools Take Top Spot in Worldwide User Satisfaction Survey

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Evans Data Corp today announced that IBM`s Rational tool suite had taken first
place in its annual Software Development Platform User Satisfaction survey,
being ranked higher than development tool offerings by Microsoft, Oracle, Sun,
and four others in the 2009 Evans Data Corp. Software Development Platform
Users' Choice survey conducted in Spring of this year.

In the worldwide survey of over 1200 developers, only users of each tool suite
rated the corresponding products on eighteen different attributes including
basic tools supplied, support for remote development, visual tools and
declarative support, quality of tech support, documentation, application
modeling tools, test tools, and support for parallel programming. In addition
the developers rated the importance of each attribute to provide relative
weighting. IBM`s Rational tool suite took top scores in multiple categories as
well as in combined overall score for the third time in four years.

"IBM continues to refine their end to end software development platform with the
focus being that software delivery is a core business process that must be
continuously made more effective," said John Andrews, president and CEO of Evans
Data Corp. "The robust development environment and the rich assortment of tools
that are provided sets a standard of excellence in development tools as
evidenced by its users overall satisfaction."

The Software Development Platform User`s Choice survey presents both the
category rankings for each suite of tools but also the relative rankings of each
within attribute categories to form a profile. The full report can be downloaded
at:

http://www.evansdata.com/reports/viewRelease_download.php?reportID=19

Evans Data provides its Users' Choice reports to the IT community free of charge
as a public service. Users' Choice reports cover several areas of satisfaction
and interest to developers and IT managers, such as software development
platforms, developer programs, scripting languages and others.

About Evans Data Corporation

Evans Data Corporation provides regularly updated IT industry market
intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population.
Evans' syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide
variety of subjects.

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respective owners.

Evans Data Corporation
Janet Hendrickson-Daly, 831-425-0114
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