BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) will report second quarter fiscal 2008 results following the market close on November 6, 2007.

Highlighting the evolution of IT, Forrester has declared Business Service Management (BSM) and the configuration management database (CMDB) critical to running a strategic IT organization.

BMC Software leads the Business Service Management strategy and solutions market by aligning IT tightly with the business, according to independent analyst firm Forrester Research. In the just-published Q107 Forrester Wave Report on Business Service Management, BMC received high scores in the report in overall current product offering, strategy and market presence.

BMC Software today announced that its BMC CONTROL-M job-scheduling solution has been positioned in Gartner's recently released "Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling, 2006" research report

BEA Systems Inc., BMC Software Inc., CA, Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Inc., EMC Corp., HP, IBM Corp., Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced they have submitted a specification to the World Wide Web Consortium for review as an industrywide standard.