So... any thoughts on this?
I personally have never come across Tideway before and therefor have no idea of what the capabilities of the product are. More interesting, how will the Tidayway product fit in to ADDM or will it remain two seperate products...
The general idea of this topic was just to get some discussion about it started.
Press release:
http://www.bmc.com/news/press-releases/2009/bmc-software-completes-acquisition-of-tideway.html
That sounds very interesting.... Pray to God that it will be a streamlined upgrade process and that it will not require a re-install.
Just found a webinar on the subject as well: BMC Atrium Discovery: Tideway Acquisition Update and Demonstration planned for the 4th of November.
I´ve read some (read ALL) documentation available on Tideway site... I must say that I´m pretty impressed so far. At the same time I´m a bit confused and worried. I certainly hope that this will NOT be replacement of any ADDM functionality. I see benefits in Tideway where ADDM lacks today, but at the same time there are functionality in ADDM which I do NOT want to be removed. There are benefits with both products today, one doing some kind of discovery better than the other. Because of this I do not want to choose between the two.
Merging of the 2 would be the absolutely best scenario and I think most of you would agree
Tideway seems to have a more developed Discovery when it comes to applications (read UAD). But both products uses regular expressions for this so merging these technologies shouldn´t be that hard.
Other areas I´m a bit worried about are the expert Discoveries in ADDM, such as Websphere, Weblogic, SAP... where I feel ADDM does a really really good job. ADDM also holds support for OpenVMS discoveries which Tideway doesn´t seem to have...
Merging, merging, merging, merging!
