Compuware completes Gomez buyout

Compuware announced Monday that it has completed the buyout of Web optimization company Gomez, bringing aboard the acquired firm's 272 employees into a new Web Performance division.

As an application and testing firm, Compuware provides enterprise customers with tools to optimize the performance of their server-based applications. Gomez helps its customers monitor and manage the performance of their Web sites and Web-based applications.

Compuware believes that the addition of Gomez, first announced in October, will allow it to provide a wider range of services to help customers test and optimize both in-house and Internet-based applications.

The deal has also garnered praise from some industry analysts. A recent IDC report "Compuware Expands SaaS Portfolio With Gomez Acquisition" sees the Gomez/Compuware marriage as a good match with plenty of upside.

"We're thrilled to welcome the Gomez team to Compuware," said Compuware President and Chief Operating Officer Bob Paul in a statement. "Together, Compuware and Gomez will--through a solution that features rapid time-to-value, ease of use and real-time answers--give IT and business executives the optimal application performance they need to drive brand image, customer loyalty and revenue."

Compuware said it will keep the Gomez brand, technology, and business model but look to integrate its new purchase in such areas as sales and marketing. Gomez CEO Jaime Ellertson will remain and serve as president of Gomez, the Web Performance division of Compuware.

Compuware expects the acquisition to add to operations this year.

[gthurman]

After buying three netbooks over the last six months and watching CBS Sixty Minutes yesterday, Nov. 08, 2009, It makes me wonder if part of the silicon on the motherboards has been altered to gather logins and passwords. I don't have the $100 million reportedly stolen from U.S. banks this year, but what I have is important to me. I think I'd like a certification from the U.S. designer that the electronics enclosed in the product is valid to their design.

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And that's related to the buyout of Gomez how?

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I'm sure there'll be more info later, but I'm wondering if they might cancel the GomezPeer program. Been some easy money to have an old machine or two sit in the corner just running their java app (sorry, I mean their poorly written java app - there's just no need to steel almost 100% cpu cycles when the app is in waiting mode, and there's certainly no need for the java library to take up 100mb of ram). But, I think it's also a key part of their ability to test apps and connection from different parts of the country and globe.