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Mergers and acquisitions on the management front, Part 1

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Mergers and acquisitions on the management front, Part 1

Denise Dubie By Denise Dubie
Whether it is EMC buying BMC or HP setting its sights on Symantec, the rumor mill is ripe with talk of a major acquisition involving one or more of the big four management vendors in 2008. Read full story

Senior Editor Denise Dubie covers the technologies, products and services that address network, systems, application and IT service management for Network World. E-mail Denise.

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