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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | |
| Founder | Aubrey G. Chernick |
| Defunct | April 2004 |
| Fate | Acquired by IBM |
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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.