Certainly, Candles infrastructure management products cover a wide range of hardware and software, from IBMs zSeries mainframe to the Unix, Linux, and Windows platforms.
Dana Gardner, senior analyst at Boston-based Yankee Group
agrees with McKendricks take, saying, This increases IBMs integration capabilities.
Software that is capable of managing processes and systems is hot at the moment, according to Gardner. I would expect that some acquisitions in the management category could be in the offing from companies like Sun and SAP.
In a statement today, Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of IBMs software group, underlined Candles importance to IBM: Together we will provide customers with powerful capabilities for managing end-to-end infrastructure, processes, and applications, which are key requirements for the on-demand operating environment.
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