CRN

Micro Focus And HPE Software Complete $8.8 Billion Spin-Off/Merger Deal

The new Micro Focus officially launched Friday, completing a year-long process of integrating Hewlett Packard Enterprise's software business with the old Micro Focus to create the world's seventh ...
ZDNet

Micro Focus signs with Microsoft's Azure

Micro Focus has said that applications developed using its implementation of COBOL will be able to work with the Microsoft Azure Service Platform. The aim is for the two companies to deliver ...
CRN

Micro Focus Buying Borland, Compuware Software Tools

Micro Focus Wednesday said the deal to buy application life-cycle management (ALM) vendor Borland has a price tag of $75 million ($67 million net of Borland's cash). The acquisition is expected to ...
TechCrunch

Hewlett Packard Enterprise to spin off software assets in $8.8B transaction

In an $8.8 billion transaction, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, also known as HPE, will be spinning off its non-core software assets, according to a statement from company CEO Meg Whitman. The assets will ...
InfoWorld

IBM sues Micro Focus for mainframe software copyright infringement

IBM alleges that software partner Micro Focus copied its proprietary file format and broke a contract with the company, in a suit filed Monday in the Southern District of New York. IBM has filed a ...
InfoWorld

Micro Focus buys Borland Software for $75 million

Micro Focus International plans to beef up its range of software quality assurance tools with two acquisitions it announced Wednesday. It has agreed to buy Borland Software, a developer of application ...
SiliconANGLE

Enterprise software maker OpenText to acquire Micro Focus for $6B

Enterprise software provider OpenText Corp. will acquire Micro Focus International plc, another major player in the enterprise software market, for $6 billion. The companies announced the acquisition ...
Forbes

OpenText’s Micro Focus Buy To Nearly Double Revenue To $6 Billion

Are acquisitions the best way for a large company to keep growing? Since the majority of acquisitions fail to earn back their cost of capital, the answer is maybe. As I have written, acquisitions can ...
Wall Street Journal

Micro Focus’s HP Software Purchase Puts It in the Big Leagues

LONDON—Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’sHPE2.41%increase; green up pointing triangle plan to spin off and merge its software business with Micro Focus International PLC, in an $8.8 billion deal, will ...
GovCon Wire

Micro Focus Software Vulnerability Analysis Platform Approved for DOD Iron Bank Use

Micro Focus Government Solutions’ (MFGS) Micro Focus Fortify software vulnerability analysis system has been approved by the Iron Bank and included in the U.S. Air Force-run Platform One (P1) as part ...
Reuters

Micro Focus buys Serena Software for $540 million

LONDON (Reuters) - British software group Micro Focus International has agreed to buy U.S. firm Serena Software for an enterprise value of $540 million (378 million pounds) and will raise $216 million ...