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1990s
In 1989, BMC announced plans to lease additional property in Sugar Land and in 1990, Max Watson, Jr. succeeded Hosley as CEO and President. In 1991, BMC had 640 employees with $139 million in revenues. Revenues, net earnings, and earnings per share increased approximately 50% over 1990. By 1991, it had offices in several complexes in the Houston area including Stafford and Sugar Land. Later in 1991, BMC announced it was building a new headquarters complex for $65 million. The 20 story tower (120,000 square feet) opened in late 1993. In 1991, Greg Hassell of the Houston Chronicle noted that after 11 years of growth, BMC still utilized "classic strategies used by little companies", such as sales commissions for its programmers and sizeable spending in research and development.

A primary BMC product during the early-mid 1990s was Patrol, a "data base and systems management product (which) monitors the status of computers, resources, databases and applications on a network," according to a New York Times report. In 1994, BMC made an alliance with computer maker Digital Equipment Corporation in which BMC would convert its Patrol software to run on all Digital operating system environments. In 1997, BMC bought Datatools, a privately based maker of backup and recovery products based in Sunnyvale, California, for $60 million.

In 1998, BMC bought Boole & Babbage, an automation computer software company based in Silicon Valley. Estimates of the price paid varied from $877 million to $1 billion. Media reports praised the acquisition, noting that both BMC and Boole & Babbage produce software that helps workers in information systems and network administration monitor problems and optimize performance. The acquisition also helped BMC expand its international sales.

Also in 1998, BMC bought Massachusetts-based BGS Systems, whose software also supported systems monitoring and optimization, for an estimated $285 million. Local media reports noted that BMC focused on using its acquisitions to add new products, and therefore avoided the need for associated layoffs.

In 1999, BMC acquired the Israeli firm New Dimension Software, with its workload automation software CONTROL-M, for $673 million cash. New Dimension Software's products included security administration, document management and multi-platform job scheduling applications. In 2000, BMC bought Israeli software maker Optisystems for $70 million.