This article is from the Problem Management Tools FAQ, by Dave Eaton dwe@arde.com with numerous contributions by others.
ClearQuest from Rational may be used as a stand alone product or in
conjunction with the Rational Suite toolkit. It is also integrated
with a variety of other tools from Rational, including ClearCase,
Purify, Quantify, PureCoverage, TeamTest, and PerformanceStudio.
ClearQuest is a flexible system, allowing the designer to create data
fields, forms, life cycles (i.e. state machines), and process rules
via either Perl or VBScript. ClearQuest uses a RDBMs as the back-end
datastore, supporting Sybase SQL/Anywhere, Microsoft Access, Microsoft
SQL Server and Oracle.
ClearQuest provides the end-user with both a Win32 and Web interface.
Customizations and administration are done on via a Win32 interface. A
supplier WWW site is available at
http://www.rational.com/products/clearquest.
 
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