BMC, the utility and systems management software company, is to buy Boole & Babbage in an all-stock transaction worth $900m. BMC, which has been on the acquisition trail of late, will add Boole & Babbage's enterprise software capabilities...
The server maker is working on N1 partnerships with BMC, i2, Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP for software, Cisco Systems for networking, and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Deloitte Consulting and EDS for helping customers install N1.
The utility computing idea is widely popular, with loud support from server makers IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems as well as software companies such as Veritas, BMC and Microsoft. IBM will release software at the end of September to let...
Animation is a vastly simpler task than some that HP and others expect utility computing to one day handle. The deals are HP's latest steps in digital entertainment and utility computing - two areas that have played an increasingly larger role in...
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...
The most common change is in volumes of transactions and this can be easily accommodated by having some form of utility pricing that allows them to be scaled up or down. Supplier management role is made more complicated by multisourcing - this is...