Big brothers such as CA, IBM, HP are waiting and watching in order to acquire a product related to change and configuration management. This is so surprising to see that there are no acquisitions in this space. And, one thing is sure that big brothers won't be interested in reinventing the wheel. They are waiting for market leader to emerge. So, they would definitely acquire one of the leaders in products dealing with managing of change and configuration of the system. Only time would tell who would be acquired by whom?

Following are three companies who has just entered in some kind of partnership relationship with IBM Tivoli:

• Cendura Corp. (Cohesion)


• Relicore Inc. (Clarity)


• Collation Corp. (Confignia)
  

Is IBM targetting one of the above companies for acquisition of products related to managing change and configuration? God knows! And, how about Computer Associates and HP? But, big brothers would absolutely do everything to eat big chunk of cake having top layer cream of change and configuration :) and be a leader in the space related to managing of  of change  ;and configuration. Lets wait and watch the market space dealing with change and configuration product!