#Micro focus headquarters software#

On 19 March 2018, Micro Focus shares fell 55% to 849p after the company warned of a sharp fall in revenue its chief executive, Chris Hsu, resigned. On 4 October 2016, Micro Focus announced it had acquired Gwava Inc., an enterprise information archiving business. The merger was completed on 1 September 2017.

#Micro focus headquarters software#

On 7 September 2016, Micro Focus announced its intent to merge with Hewlett Packard EnterpriseвЂ™s software business segment. ДЄ Micro Focus exhibitor booth at a 2017 conference in Australia These market-leading implementations of the CORBA standard were originally developed by IONA Technologies. In December 2013, Micro Focus acquired the Orbix, Orbacus and Artix software product lines from Progress Software. The other agencies previously settled the matter out of court, also for undisclosed sums. Despite this, it settled the matter out of court in 2012, for an undisclosed sum. The police force maintained during the court proceedings that it had paid for a site licence that entitled it to unlimited installations of the software for all of its officers. The group initially alleged A$10В million in damages but later increased this to A$12В million after reviewing the results of a court-ordered audit of the police force's computer systems. In 2011, the company alleged that the New South Wales Police Force and other agencies were using 16,500 copies of its ViewNow software on various computers when police and other agencies were only ever entitled to 6,500 licences. In July 2009, the company acquired Borland, a developer of application lifecycle management tools, as well as the Quality Solutions part of Compuware, including the automation tool TestPartner. Liant Software owned the assets of Ryan-McFarland Corporation, a Micro Focus competitor in the 1980s. In July 2008, the company acquired the privately held Austin, Texas-based Liant Software Corporation for its RM/COBOL and PL/I product lines. In June 2008, the company acquired the Israeli NASDAQ listed software company NetManage for US$73.3В million. In May 2007, San Diego-based Acucorp, Inc., a developer of COBOL development tools and provider of innovative technologies for the modernization and enhancement of business-critical COBOL applications, was acquired by Micro Focus for its ACUCOBOL-GTВ® product lines. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2005. In 2001 the business was demerged from Merant with help from Golden Gate Capital Partners and once again became Micro Focus. The same year the company acquired XDB Systems with their XDB Enterprise Server relational database management system. In 1998, the company acquired Intersolv Inc, an applications enablement business, for US$534В million and the combined business was renamed Merant. The product was CIS COBOL, a standard-compliant COBOL implementation for microcomputers. In 1981, it became the first company to win the Queen's Award for Industry purely for developing a software product.