A Rose by any other name
I'm a big user of Rational Rose. I've gone to three User's Conferences and spoke at two of those. Although we don't model as much as we used to (because we aren't doing as much development from scratch), we still model quite a bit... and use Rose to generate a good amount of code.

Rational and IBM announced that IBM is accquiring Rational in a "for cash" deal. Ouch... bought some stock at near high... I think about $48 per share (because of a split). The IBM deal means I'll get $10.50. I had been holding on, hoping that some day it will recover. I guess some day will never come. :-(

Maybe it will be a good deal, from a company/software point of view. Kind of hard for me to imagine though. I guess time will tell.