IBM Maintains Leadership in Application Development

ARMONK, N.Y., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today
announced that analyst firm Gartner, Inc.* has ranked IBM as the worldwide
leader in the application development software space. Additionally, IBM has
taken first place in the Evans Data Corp. "Users' Choice: 2009 Software
Development Platform" survey.**

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Gartner named IBM the worldwide market share leader in application development
based on total software revenue in 2008. This is the eighth consecutive year
that IBM continues to lead in this space. According to the independent
Gartner report, IBM leads the industry with 27.1 percent share in 2008,
growing 7.9 percent as compared to the overall segment's growth of 4 percent.
Gartner reports the total worldwide market for application development in 2008
was $7.3 billion.

IBM Rational tools also achieved "top honors" in the annual Evans Data Corp.
Software Development Platform User Satisfaction survey. Rational was ranked
higher than development tool offerings from several competitors, including
Microsoft, Oracle and Sun. The Evans Data Corp. "Users' Choice: 2009 Software
Development Platform" survey was conducted in Spring of 2009 and polled 1,200
worldwide developers. For the first time in four years, Evans Data Corp.
expanded the scope of their user satisfaction survey beyond an Integrated
Development Environment (IDE) study to instead rate a broader array of
development tools.

In today's economic climate, businesses are realizing that building a
competency in software is crucial to their long-term growth and success. As
companies deploy increasingly intelligent, interconnected and instrumented
solutions, they must treat the software they build or assemble as a strategic
business asset. However, enabling this innovation, lowering costs and
managing change is dependent on the effectiveness of their software and
systems development process. IBM Rational can provide organizations with a
collaborative software delivery platform, capabilities, and time-tested
processes to arm development teams with the necessary tools to make software
delivery a core business strength.

"In order to deliver the right solutions, on budget and on time, our customers
continue to invest in offerings that improve the collaboration and automation
of their software development organizations," said Dr. Daniel Sabbah, general
manager, IBM Rational Software. "Additionally, IBM is building upon its
leadership in the application development tools market and is now delivering
the next generation collaborative, team-based IDE. We feel that the strong
customer validation demonstrated in these reports further confirms that we are
on the right path."

In addition to achieving the survey's top ranking for Overall Software
Development Platform, Evans Data Corp. also noted IBM's leadership in seven
other categories, including: Application Modeling Tools, Web
Design/Development Tools, Support for Remote Development, Developer Test Tools
including Code Coverage Tools, Quality of Tech Support, Support for Parallel
Programming and Runtime Memory Analysis Tools. Rational tools also ranked
highest among commercially available products for Ability to Integrate Tools
and Availability of Third Party Tools.

"IBM is a leading example of a vendor that is moving beyond simply selling
point products to customers, but rather helping meet their evolving needs by
offering a complete, end-to-end application lifecycle management solution
(ALM)," said John Andrews, president and CEO of Evans Data Corp. "The robust
development environment and rich assortment of tools that are provided by IBM
sets a standard of excellence in development tools as evidenced by its users
overall satisfaction ranking in our annual survey."

For more information, visit http://www.ibm.com/software/rational.

*Gartner, Inc., "Market Share: Application Development Software, Worldwide,
2008" by Laurie Wurster, Teresa Jones and Asheesh Raina, May 2009.
**Survey: "Evans Data Corp. Software Development Platform User Satisfaction
Survey, 2009" June 2009.

Contact
Faye Abloeser
IBM Communications
abloeser@us.ibm.com
908-770-0762

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