Because of its breadth of management capability, CA is in a different league than other management vendors, said Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink. But other, smaller vendors are more focused on narrower challenges of managing Web services and SOAs (services-oriented architectures) than Computer Associates is, he added.

“As a result, those vendors may be first to innovate the definition of what Web services management means to the enterprise, but CA will definitely be hot on their tails,” Schmelzer said.

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