Candle Corporation

Candle Corporation
Company type	Private
Industry	Software
Founded	October 1976 in Toronto, Ontario (as Candle Services Corporation); 1977 in West Los Angeles, California (as Candle Corporation);
Founder	Aubrey G. Chernick
Defunct	April 2004
Fate	Acquired by IBM
Products	System monitoring applications; Middleware;
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.