Candle Corp. builds infrastructure management software that helps customers manage, monitor and tune their data centers, J2EE servers, message queuing, etc. Candle is a partner of IBM since 1976, offering a lot of solutions for WebSphere and MQSeries (now called WebSphere MQ), so the acquisition does not really come as a suprise. Actually, we talked about this possibility last week at a seminar, with 3 Candle employees who knew some big news was coming out soon. It turned out to be big blue news...
The newly acquired products will certainly boost IBM's middleware capabilities for running on-demand systems, and the Candle technology will be integrated into Tivoli's monitoring software.
No financial terms of the deal were disclosed, Candle was (still) a privately held company. What will happen to Candle's products for BEA Weblogic (hard to find on Candle's Web site, but they exist) is not known.
Posted by Patrick Van Renterghem at April 2, 2004 08:25 AM