Industry Software Defunct 2006 Founded 1989 | Fate Acquired by IBM Headquarters San Francisco | |
Key people Greg Brown
(CEO until 2002)
Lloyd Carney
(CEO from 2003) Website www.micromuse.com (redirects to IBM website) Founders Phil Tee, Christopher J. Dawes | ||
2005 micromuse user conference prague
Micromuse Inc. (Former stock number: NASDAQ: MUSE) was an American company based in San Francisco which provided network management software. The company's partners included Psytechnics.
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Products
The company's notable products include Netcool Ominbus which would later become a member of the Tivoli Software portfolio.
History
Micromuse was founded by [Australian] Chris Dawes, in London, in 1989. Dawes was killed when his McLaren F1 car crashed in Essex, in 1999.
In June 2002, Micromuse entered into an agreement to purchase rival firm RiverSoft for £43m. RiverSoft was founded by Phil Tee after he left Micromuse.
In December 2002, the company chairman and chief executive officer Greg Brown announced his resignation, and his move to become executive vice president of Motorola. Brown had worked for Micromuse since 1999.
In July 2003, Lloyd Carney was named CEO and chairman of the board, replacing Mike Luetkemeyer who was the interim CEO.
In July 2005, Micromuse announced an agreement to acquire GuardedNet Inc, a computer security company based in Atlanta, for $16.2 million in cash. GuardedNet was founded by Bob Hughes, Matt Caldwell, and Iven Connary in 1999 and was venture funded by MC Partners (Boston)
In December 2005, IBM entered into an agreement to acquire Micromuse for approximately $865 million in cash.