Did Candle products account for the lions share of Tivolis gains in systems management?
Yes. We’re really thrilled with how smoothly the integration has gone with [Candle’s] Omegamon technology. Those products had a very strong reputation among our customers for years. We increased the investment in support, and customers in the market are responding. We are getting renewed energy in this product line. How far along are the integration efforts with the Candle software, and how important is that integration to customers? They are substantially complete. Back-office integration is important to customers to have a single set of terms and business practices to deal with. More significantly, customers are interested in what we’ve done to bring together the software on the zSeries platform and in the distributed space. You came in after the acquisition was completed, and the integration efforts were already under way. Was it tough? The GM is only one individual. We have a very strong team that’s done the work to make Candle activities successful. We call our [integration] proce
