Acquisitions in IT Management space

Thankfully, I realized that I used to write this blog on change and configuration management and decided to write some interesting events that happened in recent times.

Just to talk about acquisitions would bring names of so many big companies that are fighting to get good share of revenue from this space. Take a look at the data below:

IBM Bought Collation
Symantec Bought Relicore
EMC Bought nLayers
CA Bought Cendura

Now, this is getting pretty interesting. The tall standing players are BladeLogic/Opsware which seems to be well determined in fighting it out singly with the above biggies. Only time will tell if they would also get acquired by some big company.

But the fact remains, that this space is going to see a fair tough competition and Change and Configuration Management is declared IN.