I recently posted a new article to the Forrester Research blog for Infrastructure and Operations Professionals entitled:
Configuresoft Nicely Fills an EMC Gap
EMC has been slowly building a formidable portfolio of configuration and change management offerings. This is a notable step in that journey because it fills the final major gap in that portfolio.
This one fell through the cracks! I published the report:
Managing the IT Management Software Portfolio
on September 25, 2008, but I didn’t post the notice here until now. The report covers practical ideas to make the best use of the collection of management tools you use. It also outlines how the evolving tools market will reshape the “Big Four” group of vendors.
It is available on the Forrester web site. This report is for Forrester clients only. Its distribution is restricted by the terms of Forrester Research client agreements.
DISCLAIMER: First, let me make one thing clear … despite my prior position with EMC, I do not have any insider information on what I am about to write below. I am merely observing and analyzing what is obvious to me or to anyone else who has enjoyed long-term, broad market exposure the way I have. Everything below is public knowledge and opinion.
One of the great rumors in the management software business for nearly a decade (maybe longer) is that EMC Corporation and BMC Software would join forces via a “merger.” In almost all cases, what people were actually referring to was an acquisition of BMC by EMC. I steadfastly posit that true mergers are rare and almost all attempts are failures (e.g., Daimler-Chrysler and Bay Networks, both huge disappointments). As the bigger fish, EMC would have taken over BMC, period.