BMC’s CTO, Tom Bishop, has posted message on the Open Management Consortium’s (OMC) web site, showing what seems to be support for the organization. I posted a blog entry about the launch of the OMC last week. BMC is a public company (NYSE:BMC) with a $4.4 billion U.S. market capitalization and annual revenues close to $1.5 billion U.S. in the proprietary management software space. From the post…

“So, our view is we look forward to the efforts of the Open Management Consortium being successful, and we look forward to exploring ways to engage with the member projects and companies in ways that benefit us all.” - Tom Bishop, CTO, BMC

That’s pretty impressive, considering the disruptive potential of open source management tools on BMC’s income. What’s next, support from IBM (Tivoli), HP (OpenView), and CA (Unicenter)?! If the OMC can get the attention (and support) of BMC, then it should aim high.

A question for Tom - does engaging with the member projects and companies mean that BMC is not actually going to join the OMC? Support can be interpreted in several ways here.

PS: I wonder what MC thinks of BMC supporting the OMC? MC as in Ms. Chalmers. Sorry…having too much fun with acronyms here. MC Zachary signing off…