By not being able to invest in them anymore?
"perhaps give investors something to be more excited about."
BMC and CA are considering a consensual acqui-merger, reports Bloomberg. Citing sources familiar with the talks, the report says the two companies have chatted to banks about how to put together the US$13bn or so needed to acquire CA's outstanding shares, to take the company private. BMC went private in 2013 in a $6.9bn deal …
I think you give them more credit than they deserve
They are either a basking shark, feeding on the bits non of the other sharks want, or they're a dog fish acting like a big shark but in reality small and harmless.
They make there money from legacy. They should concentrate on that market, maybe consulting for upgrades or virtualising old tin on new, maybe cloud hosting of legacy kit or something focussed on their core market that their loyal (have little choice) customers may want to spend money on.
They are probably the biggest SW company most people have never heard of. $13Bn is no small mound of cucumbers.
They do focus on the legacy market, however I'm not sure how much actual upgrading their products get, because that would require them to hire devs and that costs money.