:''This article refers to the former software company. For the online role-playing game see MicroMUSE. Micromuse Inc. (Former stock number: ) was an American company based in San Francisco which provided

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. The company's partners included

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Products

The company's products include Netcool/OMNIbus, Netcool/Impact and Netcool/RAD (Realtime Active Dashboards) which would later become members of the

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portfolio. Netcool/OMNIbus and Netcool/Impact continued as IBM products, keeping its original name whereas Netcool/RAD (and some other Micromuse products) were renamed Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM), not to be confused with an earlier IBM product named Tivoli Business Systems Manager.

History

Micromuse was founded by ustralianChris Dawes, in

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, in 1989. Dawes was killed when his

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car crashed in

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, in 1999. In June 2002, Micromuse entered into an agreement to purchase rival firm

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for £43 million. RiverSoft was founded by Phil Tee after he left Micromuse. In December 2002, the company chairman and

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Greg Brown announced his resignation, and his move to become

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. 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

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company based in

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, for $16.2 million in cash. In December 2005, IBM entered into an agreement to acquire Micromuse for approximately $865 million in cash.

References

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