By R "Ray" Wang on March 19, 2012
Forward And Commentary Software ownership costs continue to escalate as vendors accelerate their efforts to capture support and maintenance revenues. Some vendors have gone to the extreme to eliminate third-party options for their customers. This best practices report examines three strategies to free up unnecessary costs to fund innovation and new projects. A. Introduction On […]
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By Jevon MacDonald on April 28, 2011
On the heels of yesterday’s acquisition of Tungle, BMC Software has announced today that they have acquired Montreal’s Coradiant, which was co-founded by Year One Labs partner Alistair Croll. We are happy that Montreal has managed to win something in the last few days. The price is currently undisclosed, but the back of the napkin calculation tells […]
Posted in Business | Tagged BMC, Canada, Coradiant, Entrepreneurship, Exits, Montreal, Quebec, startups
By Denis Pombriant on December 15, 2010
It’s amazing to me how we overuse words. Bothering to notice is an occupational hazard of the writing life, I suppose. For instance, consider the word unique, which means one of a kind, if you add very or any other modifier to it, you get mush. Today’s word might be amazing. There is entirely too […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged benioff, BMC, CRM, database.com, df10, Dreamforce, heroku, Remedy, RemedyForce, salesforce, siteforce, technology
By Michael Coté on January 7, 2010
BMC is buying a what seems to be a good Java infrastructure (read: the middle-ware & application layer), model-driven automation and management tool that’ll augment their existing Blade Logic automation portfolio.
Posted in Business | Tagged austin, automation, BMC, enterprise software, Java, M&A, Phurnace, Quick Analysis, Systems Management
