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Weird to see some micromuse thing listed as the service listed for 1534. I worked for them back in like 2006 and we got eaten by IBM/Tivoli and I don't believe

Weird to see some micromuse thing listed as the service listed for 1534. I worked for them back in like 2006 and we got eaten by IBM/Tivoli and I don't believe they kept the name for anything? I always knew nobody really updated those but man, really nobody updates those.

Nursie 3y ago
Hah, weird to see micromuse come up. I started working for them two weeks before the acquisition was announced!
- chefandy 3y ago
  Ha! I did support there for Proviso— the product of a startup that Micromuse had acquired not too long before the IBM acquisition. I started in between the acquisitions.
  - Nursie 3y ago
    Yeah they did a few acquisitions before being swallowed by Big Blue - I joined the London folks on OMNIbus at the tail end of '05, then in 2010 moved to Australia to work with what was still effectively a Micromuse team within IBM who had originally been bought in to Micromuse as Riversoft here in Perth. Didn't have a huge amount of interaction with the US side of things though!
    - chefandy 3y ago
      TNZ was one of my regular interactions. I regularly connected with some really competent, lovely folks over there. Especially compared to some (only some!) of the more "claws out" US customers, they were an absolute pleasure to work with.
alexfoo 3y ago
1534 was the port used by the license manager (elmd - Elan license manager). The bane of many a Netcool installation until we joyfully ripped it out post IBM acquisition. -Alex (Micromuse 1997 to 2021).
- chefandy 3y ago
  I was wondering what it was. I only worked on Proviso out of Massachusetts so I never even touched anything that was Netcool proper.
  - alexfoo 3y ago
    I think I was in Lowell for a few weeks helping out on some App Packs when I heard about the acquisition. Working with JFK? and another guy with a short nickname that escapes me right now. Wedge?
    - chefandy 3y ago
      I know who JFK is— rad dude— but Wedge doesn’t ring a bell. I was in support though so my exposure to most of the dev crew was infrequent enough to make a lot of those memory recall threads pretty thin. I went to Dallas in 2006 to get the official Micromuse company training because we were basically still operating as Quallaby when I got hired. It was for… a week I think? Maybe two? Nice folks down there. Plus great barbecue for lunch and great tequila after work. Hard to argue with that.

Nursie 3y ago

Hah, weird to see micromuse come up. I started working for them two weeks before the acquisition was announced!

chefandy 3y ago
Ha! I did support there for Proviso— the product of a startup that Micromuse had acquired not too long before the IBM acquisition. I started in between the acquisitions.
- Nursie 3y ago
  Yeah they did a few acquisitions before being swallowed by Big Blue - I joined the London folks on OMNIbus at the tail end of '05, then in 2010 moved to Australia to work with what was still effectively a Micromuse team within IBM who had originally been bought in to Micromuse as Riversoft here in Perth. Didn't have a huge amount of interaction with the US side of things though!
  - chefandy 3y ago
    TNZ was one of my regular interactions. I regularly connected with some really competent, lovely folks over there. Especially compared to some (only some!) of the more "claws out" US customers, they were an absolute pleasure to work with.

alexfoo 3y ago

1534 was the port used by the license manager (elmd - Elan license manager). The bane of many a Netcool installation until we joyfully ripped it out post IBM acquisition. -Alex (Micromuse 1997 to 2021).

chefandy 3y ago
I was wondering what it was. I only worked on Proviso out of Massachusetts so I never even touched anything that was Netcool proper.
- alexfoo 3y ago
  I think I was in Lowell for a few weeks helping out on some App Packs when I heard about the acquisition. Working with JFK? and another guy with a short nickname that escapes me right now. Wedge?
  - chefandy 3y ago
    I know who JFK is— rad dude— but Wedge doesn’t ring a bell. I was in support though so my exposure to most of the dev crew was infrequent enough to make a lot of those memory recall threads pretty thin. I went to Dallas in 2006 to get the official Micromuse company training because we were basically still operating as Quallaby when I got hired. It was for… a week I think? Maybe two? Nice folks down there. Plus great barbecue for lunch and great tequila after work. Hard to argue with that.