Candle Corporation

Candle Corporation
Company typePrivate
IndustrySoftware
Founded
  • October 1976 (1976-10) in Toronto, Ontario (as Candle Services Corporation)
  • 1977 in West Los Angeles, California (as Candle Corporation)
FounderAubrey G. Chernick
DefunctApril 2004 (2004-04)
FateAcquired by IBM
Products
Number of employees
2,000 (2000, peak)

Candle Corporation was an American software company active from 1976 to 2004. The company spent the first two decades developing system monitoring applications for a variety of IBM mainframes and their corresponding software, their first being OMEGAMON which saw quick widespread adoption in commercial enterprises. In the mid-1990s, the company made pivots toward non-mainframe monitoring software and middleware. IBM acquired the company for between $350 million and $600 million in 2004.

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