The Austin Business Journal offers a 10-year retrospective on IBM’s 1996 acquisition of Tivoli, then a startup providing server monitoring technology and now one of IBM’s “five software brands” (along with Lotus, DB2, Rational, and WebSphere):

Today, the division is one of IBM’s fastest-growing and profitable divisions, bringing in about $1 billion in revenues last year. First-quarter 2006 revenues from Tivoli software increased 24 percent over the same quarter last year…

At the time of the IBM purchase, Tivoli developed software that automated the management of enterprise computer systems. The company has since expanded its product portfolio to include security, storage systems and network management software.

And those products are growing every day through IBM’s strategic acquisitions… In the past year, IBM bought four companies that were folded into the Tivoli division — San Francisco-based Micromuse Inc.; Roseville, Calif.-based Cims Lab Inc.; Redwood City, Calif.-based Collation Inc.; and Armonk, N.Y.-based Isogon Corp.

Full article: IBM, Tivoli - 10 years later

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