Is Compuware now safe?

[iheartthed]

It appears that it is probably best just to hold for now. WWJ announced that Elliot Management's long term goal is to buy both BMC and Compuware and merge them. Not much I can do about it as I only hold a few hundred of millions of shares.

One possibility, Compuware does own its own office building. If a merger happens, it could be that most employees would be put in a place that makes the most financial sense. I would assume that a big chunk of Compuware is tied into having that building and being that it was built for a computer company it may mean moving Quicken out and BMC in.

The bigger company always wins. I can't think of a good argument for why the hypothetically merged company would end up in Detroit.

From the media reports it seems like these two companies have very similar product lines. What they probably want to do most is combined the two companies client lists and then cull out the operational and product redundancies between the two companies.

I don't get the sense that most of Compuware's clients are in the Detroit area, either? I would think that would be the biggest factor for how much of a presence a combined company would maintain in Detroit.

[Gistok]

I don't get the sense that most of Compuware's clients are in the Detroit area, either? I would think that would be the biggest factor for how much of a presence a combined company would maintain in Detroit.

That's actually a two sided sword... the software clients are not predominantly located in metro Detroit... but the consultation services [[contract programming/IT staff) is located primarily in metro Detroit.

[DetroitPlanner]

That's actually a two sided sword... the software clients are not predominantly located in metro Detroit... but the consultation services [[contract programming/IT staff) is located primarily in metro Detroit.

Compuware is all over the place. I recall we had a salesman in the Dallas area!