Yes . . . The infrastructure-oriented trade magazines have been running a few stories about how Cisco may sever long-term relations with IBM (think Tivoli) and HP (think OpenView) as a consequence of rolling out a new line of blade servers (code name "California"). Understandably, IBM and HP don't want to share their system management tools with Cisco (their new competitor), so Cisco may have no choice but to build or buy their own. No time to build one from scratch, so what's another mature system management tool, independent from IBM and HP, that would serve Cisco's needs? You guessed it . . . BMC and their Patrol product line are definite candidates. (Who else is there?) Links: http://edge.networkworld.com/news/2008/121808-bmc-tools-cisco-california-bla de-server.html http://edge.networkworld.com/community/node/36541 Also, earlier today UBS upgraded BMC from "neutral" to "buy": http://finance.yahoo.com/news/BMC-Software-stock-up-after-apf-13984931.html However, have seen nothing in writing suggesting an acquisition -- BMC has a current market cap of $5.2B (and growing), so that would be a challenge, even for Cisco. -- Bing Bradford Bingel ("Bing") ITM3 California [email protected] (email) 925-260-6394 (mobile)
_____ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wallace, Kelvin Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Other shoe just fell, no UserWorld 2009, so on with the ARSlist Awards ** Has anyone else heard rumors of a Cisco buyout of parts or all of BMC Software - resulting from the "California" blade server rollout? _____ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guillaume Rheault Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Other shoe just fell, no UserWorld 2009, so on with the ARSlist Awards Not only that, but the market had crashed too, and even worse, peregrine acquired Remedy, which initially questioned peregrine's commitment to ARS. That in itself put many implementation projects on hold back then. -Guillaume -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Rick Cook Sent: Tue 01/06/09 12:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Other shoe just fell, no UserWorld 2009, so on with the ARSlist Awards As I recall, 1300 people attended the rug after the dot com bust. The market wasn't any worse then than now. Did any BMC customer or partner get asked whether they would attend? Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "VanSickle, James W" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:27:18 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Other shoe just fell, no UserWorld 2009, so on with the ARSlist Awards There is also another side to this as well. How many companies in the current financial climate can or are willing to send some or all of their Remedy teams to such a conference? If I was a manager trying to keep costs down, I might have a difficult time justifying plane tickets, hotel fees, car rental, and other travel expenses for such a conference. BMC could have some very justified fears that attendance would be too low to be worth the effort, and that a number of third-party vendors may also keep their staff away in efforts to save costs. James Van Sickle Remedy Developer Office: 972-409-4902 Mobile: 214-263-9340 -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) __Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ __Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
