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NEWS&ANALYSIS
Serena snaps
up developer
TeamShare
By Darryl K. Taft
Corporate developers are getting
more collaboration capabilities
in their development
tools, thanks to acquisitions by Serena
Software Inc. and CollabNet Inc.
Serena, of San Mateo, Calif., which
last week agreed to buy TeamShare Inc.
for $18 million, sells change management
solutions that automate
changes to enterprise code and content.
With TeamShare, a Colorado
Springs, Colo., developer of collaborative
software development solutions,
Serena plans to bolster its product line
with collaboration technology and
extend its reach in application life-cycle
management, company officials said.
Serena’s acquisition followed by a
few weeks CollabNet’s buyout of Enlite
Networks Inc., of Mountain View, Calif.
CollabNet is a Brisbane, Calif., provider
of collaborative software development
solutions; Enlite is an enterprise
collaboration technology startup
with a facility in Chennai, India.
A variety of software makers are
adding collaboration into core components
of their offerings, according
to Erica Rugullies, an analyst with Giga
Information Group Inc., in Cambridge,
Mass. However, “many vendors
will have to set back their collaboration
strategies as Microsoft
[Corp.] and IBM provide collaboration
tools,” Rugullies said.
Microsoft is moving collaboration
capabilities into its Windows operating
system with Windows SharePoint
Services, expected this year, and
IBM is componentizing its collaborative
offerings and making them
available through the various IBM
software brands, Rugullies said. “With
these two big vendors coming into the
market, it’s going to be harder and
harder for proprietary collaboration
tools to flourish,” she said. ´
38 eWEEK � MAY 26, 2003