Tony Lock, Chief Analyst for Bloor Research writes about the recent IBM acquisition of Micromuse - and is pretty positive about it.

IBM Closes 2005 With Capture of Micromuse

All in all, this could be a very shrewd buy. The combination of the Tivoli systems and service management technologies with Netcool’s carrier-class network performance management capabilities will extend the scope of Tivoli allowing it to begin the delivery of virtually end to end application service management. As I have stated on many occasions, IT Service Management is the future of IT management. Tivoli and Netcool are well placed to develop the capabilities needed to turn this vision into a reality.

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