Candle, with more than 5,000 customers in 60 countries, helps customers develop, deploy and manage their enterprise infrastructure. As one of the world's largest independent software and services companies, El Segundo, California-based Candle Corporation specializes in helping end-users cost-effectively maximize the performance of complex computer systems and software applications. It accomplishes this via more than 250 software products for everything from mainframe systems to Web environments, as well as specialized consulting services.