When the $4.5 billion deal is completed later this year, HP will gain Mercury’s software management technology plus the Systinet Registry, which Mercury acquired this past January. Assuming that HP can successfully integrate the Mercury and Systinet products into its OpenView management architecture, it will be positioned to compete with IBM Tivoli and Computer Associates, said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink LLC.

“It’s now the battle of the Titans, HP versus CA and IBM Tivoli, to see who can put together the most complete, service-oriented enterprise IT management (EITM) story for the enterprise,” the analyst said.

“CA is well on its way to reworking its entire product line to take advantage of the CA Integration Platform, essentially an ESB that enables their products to interact via services as part of a service-oriented product architecture,” Bloomberg explained. “Under OpenView CTO Mark Potts HP has also been reworking its OpenView architecture along SOA lines. With the Mercury acquisition, HP now adds full lifecycle management to the mix and what will likely turn out to be the gem of the deal, the Systinet Registry — HP’s answer to IBM’s new registry/repository product. The war is over EITM, but the battle zone is shaping up to be SOA governance.”

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