BMC vs Entrust Datacard

BMC Software, Inc. is an American company specializing in business service management software. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, BMC develops, markets and sells software used for multiple functions, including IT service management, data center automation, performance management, virtualization lifecycle management and cloud computing management. The name "BMC" is taken from the surnames of its three founders Scott Boulette, John Moores, and Dan Cloer.

Entrust Inc. is a $130 million privately owned software company with 350 employees. It provides identity management Entrust reports having customers at public and private organizations in 60 countries, with 125 patents either granted or pending in the areas of authentication, physical/logical access, certificates, e-content delivery and citizen identities. Previously a publicly traded company, in July 2009 Entrust was acquired by Thoma Bravo, a U.S.-based private equity firm, for $124 million.