Compuware Corp is to acquire Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Programart Inc, a privately-held developer of application performance management software for IBM mainframes. Programmart, founded in 1969, claims to have its products installed in 1,200 sites worldwide, including 85 of the 100 largest OS/390 sites in North America. Its products include the Strobe system for measuring the activity of online and batch processing applications, and the APMpower Application Performance Analysis system, which guides users through the application performance analysis process. Compuware says the products will be equally useful for distributed applications. No financial details were revealed, though Compuware said it would acquire substantially all the assets and certain liabilities of the company.
