Rational Software Corp, of Santa Clara, California, is shipping its Rational Summit change-management software for use with the Apex Ada and C/C++ compiler it offers for mixed language development and high-end configuration management. Summit is int ended to extend Apex’s configuration management by enabling the presentation of physical file changes into tasks – units of work such as software bugs in which the allocation, scheduling, monitoring and managing of work can be related to a software development project. Rational Summit supports its own Rational Rose object modellng tool, its SoDA automated documentation and reporting tool, and Microsoft Corp’s Project and Excel project management tools. It comes with pre-defined process models and templates for definition of task lay-out, policy and roles. It is up on Digital Equipment Corp, Sun Microsystems Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co, IBM Corp and Silicon Graphics Inc systems and sells for from $2,500 per license.
