Maintenance contracts (updates, patches, and support) were typically 20 % of the license price per year. IBM has discontinued new sales of RRE 7.0, so any current purchases would be through the secondary market or IBM’s “legacy software” program.
Many Computer Science departments maintained internal mirrors of Rational products for their labs. Some public FTP indexes (e.g., ftp.old-dos.ru or vetusware.com ) still host the setup.exe and accompanying .bin files. --- IBM Rational Rose Enterprise 7.0 -2006- Download Pc