type public traded as lse mcro industry information technology founded 1976 headquarters newbury berkshire uk key people kevin loosemore executive chairman 1 products enterprise application integration and management software services it consulting revenue us 1.245 billion 2016 2 operating income us 294.9 million 2016 2 profit us 163.0 million 2016 2 website www.microfocus.com 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 lse and is a constituent of the ftse 100 index . on september 7 2016 a spin merge was announced between micro focus and hewlett packard enterprise where micro focus would acquire non core software assets of hpe and hpe shareholders would own 50.1 percent of the merged company . the resultant company would retain its current name and listing on the lse . 3 contents 1 history 1.1 illegal distribution incident 2 operations 3 financial information 4 shareholder structure 5 references 6 external links history edit the company was founded in 1976 4 and in its early years concentrated on cobol products . in 1981 it 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 . 5 the micro focus logo circa 1985 . in 1998 the company acquired intersolv inc an applications enablement business for us 534 million 6 and the combined business was renamed merant . 4 in 2001 the business was demerged from merant with help from golden gate capital partners and once again became micro focus . 7 it was listed on the london stock exchange in 2005 . 8 on june 2008 the company acquired the israeli nasdaq listed software company netmanage for us 73.3 million . 9 in july 2009 the company acquired borland a developer of application lifecycle management tools as well as the quality solutions including automation tool test partner part of compuware . 10 in december 2013 micro focus 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 . 11 on 15 september 2014 micro focus 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 and suse product lines . attachmate 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 micro focus post acquisition . 12 13 on 22 march 2016 micro focus announced its intent to acquire serena software then valued at 540 million . 14 the acquisition was completed on 2 may 2016 . 15 on 7 september 2016 micro focus announced its intent to merge with hewlett packard enterprise s software business segment . 16 as part of the agreement micro focus 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 . illegal distribution incident edit in august 2010 the company discovered that the new south wales police force had illegally distributed 16 000 copies of the viewnow platform 9 500 more than the licence allowed . micro focus alleged in 2011 that the nsw police force ombudsman police integrity commission corrective services and other government agencies illegally used its viewnow software which is used to access the intelligence database known as cops . the company alleged police and other agencies were using 16 500 copies of its software on various computers when police were only ever entitled to 6 500 licences . the group initially alleged a 10 million in damages but later increased this to a 12 million after reviewing the results of a court ordered a 120 000 kpmg audit of the nsw police force s computer systems . 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 . despite this it settled the matter out of court in 2012 for an undisclosed sum . the other agencies previously settled the matter out of court also for undisclosed sums . 17 operations edit the product areas consist of visual cobol mainframe products and services and borland . 18 financial information edit the company s financial results are summarised below micro focus international plc financial results 19 20 2 year to april revenue us million ebit us m net profit us m earnings per share 2016 1 245.0 294.9 163.0 74.5 2015 834.5 147.2 101.5 58.5 2014 433.1 155.7 122.1 84.8 2013 414.0 161.3 123.2 78.7 2012 434.8 179.8 120.6 65.8 2011 436.1 135.1 96.4 47.0 2010 432.6 150.5 76.4 37.5 2009 274.7 91.2 66.0 32.9 2008 228.2 88.5 55.4 27.7 2007 171.6 63.0 43.9 22.0 2006 143.7 36.9 16.2 8.3 2005 150.6 47.9 17.5 14.3 2004 126.3 31.0 14.2 12.4 2003 114.9 27.8 10.5 9.8 note accounts to 2004 prepared according to uk generally accepted accounting practice . accounts from 2005 onwards prepared according to international financial reporting standards . shareholder structure edit the principal shareholders of micro focus at 31 july 2009 were standard life 10.92 % majedie asset management 8.17 % and blackrock 6.36 % . 21 references edit press release 15 apr 2011 . micro focus . retrieved 19 april 2011 . a b c d audited preliminary results for the full year ended 30 april 2016 pdf . micro focus . 14 july 2016 . retrieved 15 september 2016 . christine wang 2016 09 07 . hewlett packard enterprise earnings 49 cents per share vs 44 cents eps est. . cnbc . retrieved 2016 09 07 . a b micro focus history software industry receives royal treatment . new scientist . 90 1251 289 . 30 april 1981 . issn 0262 4079 . micro focus buys intersolv for 534 million city & corporate fd wins micro focus equity listing bid pr week . brandrepublic.com . retrieved 31 march 2015 . dominic elliott . micro focus ipo scrapes home after price cut . efinancialnews.com . retrieved 31 march 2015 . micro focus completes acquisition of netmanage inc . reuters . 18 june 2008 . retrieved 2009 10 11 . micro focus buys borland software for 75 million infoworld 6 may 2009 micro focus international plc acquisition of orbix artix and orbacus software product lines for 15m micro focus international plc 24 december 2012 micro focus to buy attachmate in 1.2 billion share deal . bloomberg . 15 september 2014 . retrieved 15 september 2014 . micro focus to buy attachmate in 1.2 billion deal . the wall street journal . 15 september 2014 . retrieved 15 september 2014 . micro focus international plc micro focus announces intent to acquire serena software inc. micro focus international plc 22 march 2016 micro focus completes acquisition of serena software inc. micro focus international plc 2 may 2016 micro focus announces intent to merge with hewlett packard enterprise s software business segment micro focus international plc 7 september 2016 nsw hit with 1.8 m legal bill after piracy case smh accessed 27 april 2013 . micro focus international products preliminary results 2014 pdf . micro focus . retrieved 31 march 2015 . preliminary results 2015 pdf . micro focus . retrieved 14 october 2015 . annual report 2009 pdf . micro focus . retrieved 2010 03 21 . external links edit official website google finance profile v t e ftse 100 companies of the united kingdom ftse 250 3i admiral group anglo american antofagasta ashtead group associated british foods astrazeneca aviva bae systems bhp billiton bp babcock international barclays barratt developments british american tobacco british land bt group bunzl burberry capita carnival centrica coca cola 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