Information Week reports that Rational wants to go toe-to-toe against Team System's expected usability. The “Atlantic” project will:
...add visual navigation features, wizard assistants, and greater ease of use. The goal of the tools, code-named Atlantic, is to make it easier for existing Java programmers to produce code and expand the ranks of Java programmers. "There'll be a lot less toggling back and forth between tools than in older versions," says Michael Devlin, general manager of the Rational unit.
Hmm, so Atlantic is only for Java developers? What happened to the cozy Rational/MS relationship? Did it bite the dust or is Atlantic going to integrate with VS2005 as well? Anyone know?
Here's Rational's press release.
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