COMPUWARE TO ACQUIRE CACI INTERNATIONAL'S COMNET GROUP FOR $40 MILLION: Buy Of Predicator Line Extends EcoSYSTEMS Products Into Capacity Planning Market.

Productivity solutions provider Compuware Corp. of Farmington Hills, Mich., is buying the COMNET products group from IT services provider CACI International Inc. for $40 million in cash.

With the acquisition, Compuware makes its debut in the application capacity planning market while creating synergies with its EcoSYSTEMS line of application service level management products. The CACI and EcoSYSTEMS products are highly complementary and will allow Compuware to better support performance management of mission-critical applications and e-commerce.

"This event represents an evolution in our relationship with CACI," says Frank Slootman, vice president of EcoSYSTEMS. "Our products have been working together for some time and have helped our common customers more effectively plan for IT infrastructure capacity. As an integrated solution, our offerings will now chart new territory in capacity and response-time analysis and prediction for multi-tier, e- commerce applications." Compuware and CACI expect to close the transaction within 60 days.

Commenting on the sale, Jack London, chairman of CACI, said the decision to sell the COMNET products group "is a result of the company's and board's ongoing market selection and strategic planning efforts, which analyze opportunities to enhance future performance and shareholder value. While we recognized we had a really valuable property with a terrific team of people, we have decided to concentrate our resources on lines of business that we can leverage at higher growth rates and better profit margins."

London also noted that "continuing in this particular product niche would have required major investments in both distribution channels and product development. Our current and planned capital investments are being made in our value-added services businesses, which include e- commerce, network, and telecommunications. These are big market sectors with huge future potentials. They will bring us much better returns over the longer term."

With trailing 12-month revenues of more than $1.9 billion, Compuware has 15,000 employees worldwide. Falls, Church, Va.-based CACI, which provides a wide variety of IT services to the federal government, has 4,200 employees operating out of 90 offices in the US and Europe.