Micro Focus

EMC | September 08, 2016

Partners are cheering Hewlett Packard Enterprise's move to spin off and merge its "non-core" software assets, including its Autonomy and Vertica big data software and its security software portfolio, to British multinational software maker Micro Focus....

IBM | September 08, 2016

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is combining some software assets with Micro Focus International Plc of the U.K. in a deal valued at about $8.8 billion as Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman takes further steps to slim down the U.S. company’s operations....

Hewlett Packard Enterprise | September 08, 2016

Micro Focus’s competitors include big software companies such as International Business Machines Corp. and Microsoft Corp., as well as more specialized operators such as Red Hat Inc. After the HP Enterprise deal, Micro Focus will have combined annual revenue of $4.5 billion, up from $1.2 billion currently, making it one of the world’s largest pure-play infrastructure-software companies, it said....

Hewlett Packard Enterprise | September 08, 2016

Micro Focus, the 40-year-old software tools vendor that this week joined the FTSE-100 following ARM's takeover by Softbank, is to acquire the non-core software assets of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in a $8.8bn ‘spin-merge' deal that will see HPE emerge with a 50.1 per cent stake in ‘new' Micro Focus...