This is not original as its exactly the same message as the also 'newly invented' HP Software (and just about everyone else) are putting out, SOA, XML, Web Services, Anti-silo, Service Portfolio Management etc...

A better analogy is: you can sugar coat a turd but that the end of the day it's still a turd.

I've never worked for CA but have had lots of experience with their enterprise products. For the first decade I used them, they sucked... They've gotten a little better but they're nothing to write home about...

Their support blows, their licensing schemes are overly complex and if you run a wintel shop with a diverse user community, implementing some of their products can be quite disastrous...

Having dealt with Computer Ass. for much of my career, I can indeed say that I am among the legions who will never deal voluntarily with them again. I have had the pleasure over the last 7 years to work in shops free of CA "solutions" (among one of the better oxymorons in my IT experience).

Indeed, to a large degree they seem to have shared business pracices with other industry Asses Including RIAA and MPAA. I have enough turds to polish without needing to introduce any more.