The recent acquisition of Numara Software by BMC has caused some of BMC’s rivals to suddenly become experts on BMC’s business. For example, one of them blogged that Numara customers should expect an increase in maintenance costs and an aggressive push to migrate to BMC’s Remedyforce in order to increase BMC’s SaaS installed base. Another posted insulting cartoons and a narrative about a “marriage of convenience” between the two, with Numara products joining a “harem” of other products that BMC has acquired over the years.