!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] (Micro Focus International plc) is a multinational software and information technology business based in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The firm provides software and consultancy services for clients updating legacy systems to more modern platforms. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

!! History
The company was founded in [1976|Year 1976] and in its early years, concentrated on [COBOL] products. 

In [1981|Year 1981], the company became the first company to win the Queen's Award for Industry purely for developing a software product. The product was CIS COBOL, a standard-compliant [COBOL] implementation for microcomputers.

[{$pagename}] was renamed Micro Focus Group in [1983|Year 1883]

In [1998|Year 1998], [{$pagename}] acquired Intersolv Inc, an applications enablement business, for US $534 million and the combined business was renamed __Merant__.

In [2001|Year 2001] the business was __demerged__ from Merant with help from Golden Gate Capital Partners and once again became [{$pagename}]. 

[{$pagename}] was listed on the London Stock Exchange in [2005|Year 2005].

On June [2008|Year 2008], [{$pagename}] acquired the Israeli NASDAQ listed software company NetManage for US $73.3 million.

In July [2009|Year 2009], [{$pagename}] acquired [Borland], a developer of application lifecycle management tools, as well as the Quality Solutions (including automation tool Test Partner) part of Compuware.

In December [2013|Year 2013], [{$pagename}] acquired the Orbix, Orbacus and Artix software product lines from Progress Software. These market-leading implementations of the [CORBA] standard were originally developed by IONA Technologies.

On 15 September [2014|Year 2014], [{$pagename}] announced that it would acquire The [Attachmate Group] for US $1.2 billion in shares, which will give it ownership of the Attachmate, [NetIQ], [Novell INC], and [SUSE] product lines. [Attachmate Group]'s parent company Wizard Parent LLC—consisting of the investment groups Elliott Management Corporation, Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital, and Thoma Bravo, will hold a 40% stake in [{$pagename}] post-acquisition.

On 22 March [2016|Year 2016], [{$pagename}] announced its intent to acquire Serena Software, then valued at $540 million

On 7 September [2016|Year 2016], [{$pagename}] announced its intent to merge with [Hewlett Packard Enterprise]’s software business segment. As part of the agreement, [{$pagename}] and [HPE] also announced their intention to name [SUSE] as HPE's preferred Linux distribution and to leverage SUSE's [OpenStack] expertise to collaborate on HPE’s Helion OpenStack and Stackato [PaaS] solutions.

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