The company is financing the deal through a $4.5bn credit facility from Credit Suisse First Boston. CA competes with IBM subsidiary - Tivoli, Hewlett-Packard's OpenView and offerings from BMC and Boole & Babbage, which agreed to merge last...
Called Unity, the Preston-based facility is based on a suite of packages developed by CSC and product vendors. One of the first companies to use Unity is British Aerospace (BAe), an existing CSC customer which will have 6,000 staff covered by the...
Storage giant EMC is said to be in talks with the business software specialist BMC over a potential merger. Analysts claim if EMC was to buy BMC, it would enable the storage giant to become a serious player in the data centre and application...
BMC Software plans to extend its identity management software with better management tools. BMC on Thursday said it will incorporate technology developed by Business Layers, a Rochelle Park, New Jersey-based company, into its existing Control-SA...
Enterprise software maker BMC Software has announced plans to acquire Marimba in an all-cash deal. BMC will pay $8.25 per share, or a total of approximately $240m, for the software company. The company will be integrated into BMC's Remedy business...
BMC Software has bought web access management firm OpenNetwork in an all-cash deal worth $18m. Florida-based OpenNetwork is a specialist in single sign-on solutions and expands the identity management product offering of BMC.