Compuware to Acquire Gomez: Will This Change How CDNs Measure Performance?

Wednesday morning, Compuware (CPWR) announced an agreement to acquire Gomez in an all cash transaction valued at $295M and expects the deal to close next month. I last wrote about Gomez a year ago when they launched their new streaming media monitoring service called Active Streaming XF. While I don't know much about Compuware or the application performance software industry, I wonder if the sale of Gomez will have any impact on the CDNs who use Gomez today.

Currently, many of the CDNs use Gomez to monitor the performance of their network and while I have said many times the methodology used to measure the performance of one CDN to another is invalid, Gomez still seems to be what nearly all the CDNs are using when a customer asks them for third party performance data.