I have been using a few of the IBM Rational tools ( Clearcase , Clearquest ,etc) since 1998.
Those days it was easy to get an evaluation version of Rational software from either the Rational website or from Rational local offices.
But once IBM acquired Rational in 2003 the situation is totally different. For some reason, only a registered MNC customer can get Rational evaluation software.
In this space IBM Rational is losing out to AccuRev mainly ( it’s pretty simple to get AccuRev eval software with a 2 weeks eval license).
But this is not the case of IBM-Rational softwares. I believe this is the main reason many companies are migrating to AccuRev or to OpenSource git / svn.
Clearcase / Clearquest and RTC can be made available on IBM Cloud, if already not available, at least for evaluation purpose. Clearcase is far superior in config-spec , branching / merging comparing to open source tools like git/svn.
What are other people’s thoughts on making Clearcase / Clearquest and RTC available on IBM Cloud?
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