Micro Focus是一家成立于1976年的老公司，早年以提供基于COBOL的产品见长，目前主要从事企业信息化及资产管理等业务。
标识Company Micro Focus International plc
Stock Symbol MCRO.L (London Stock Exchange)
About Micro Focus
Micro Focus International plc (Micro Focus®; LSE: MCRO.L) provides innovative software that helps companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization software enables customers' business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. Micro Focus has more than 30 years of expertise and more than 15,000 customers and one million licensed users. Our Application Modernization solutions enable our customers, which include more than 70 of the Fortune Global 100 companies, to continue to gain value from their investment in business applications.
公司CEO Stephen KellyYear Founded 1976
Headquarters The Lawn
22-30 Old Bath Road
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 1QN
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)1635 32646
Fax: +44 (0)1635 33966
Number of Offices 25 Principal Locations UK, USA, Germany, Japan
Number of employees 850
Annual revenues *
2007: $171.6 million
2006: $143.7 million
2005: $150.6 million
*Micro Focus operates on a fiscal year calendar from May 1 – April 30.
Current products
Micro Focus Products are used for both the development and deployment of applications. For more information about our products please see the products overview.
Micro Focus以7500万美元收购Borland公司编辑本段回目录
2009年5月6日消息，据路透社报道，英国软件公司Micro Focus宣布，该公司将会以7500万美元现金收购Borland。同时，该公司表示，还将收购康普科纬迅公司(Compuware Corporation）旗下的软件测试以及自动软件质量服务的业务。Micro Focus的这两项收购案将会使其在软件测试和自动业务领域占据领先的市场地位。据悉，由于去年Micro Focus第四季度业绩表现强势，使其全年收益提高20％，公司最终做出收购Borland议案。
Borland标识Micro Focus是一家位于英国的软件公司，主要为企业提供软件的信息化更新及资产管理等业务。该公司于6日宣布，将会以现金收购的方式，买下Borland软件公司，公司将为此花费7500万美元，而收购康普科纬迅公司旗下的相关产业将花费5800万美元。Micro Focus公司的首席执行官史蒂芬·凯利(Stephen Kelly)在一次声明当中表示：“去年Micro Focus在第四季度业绩表现强势，我对公司当前的市场影响力以及表现相当满意，而收购Borland的决议将会有利于公司未来更好的发展。”
这两项收购案都会得到完全的金融支持。资金来源于Micro Focus公司现有的资金储备以及通过新发行的1.75亿美元3年期循环信贷安排来获得。在分开发表的交易声明当中，Micro Focus表示,剔除汇率和通胀因素,预计该公司今年集团收益同比将增长约20%,同时希望该公司核心业务有机收益增长率能够达到两位数。同时，该公司表示，与去年经调整的8850万美元EBITDA(Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortisation，指未计利息、税项、折旧及摊销前利益)相比，预计公司今年经调整EBITDA将在1.15亿美元至1.17亿美元之间。（普莱）
Micro Focus简介编辑本段回目录
Micro Focus International plc (Micro Focus®; LSE: MCRO.L) provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization and Management software enables customers' business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk.
Micro Focus has more than 30 years of expertise and more than 15,000 customers and one million licensed users, including more than 70 of the Fortune Global 100 companies.
Our recent acquisition of HAL Knowledge Systems has enabled us to provide an industry-leading Application Portfolio Management solution, which aligns IT spend with business strategy by providing factual business intelligence for informed decisionmaking. In short, it takes the risk out of change.
Our Application Modernization solution enables our customers to continue to gain value from their investment in business applications while meeting the latest demands of the business as a low risk alternative to re-writing or replacing existing systems with packages.
Our COBOL Technology solution allows our customers to extend and integrate existing applications to meet new and emerging business needs in the most cost effective and quickest way.
By exploiting the latest technologies and leveraging the strength of our business partners worldwide, Micro Focus enables customers to make sense of their application portfolios, improve the productivity of application developers, take advantage of Web services to modernize core applications and exploit low-cost contemporary platforms, such as Windows, UNIX or Linux.
Micro Focus helps its customers reduce application development and operating costs, increase the flexibility and value of their information technology resources and better manage the risks inherent in development and deployment.
Micro Focus has more than 500 employees worldwide, with principal offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany and Japan.
微软Azure和Micro Focus联手推云计算计划编辑本段回目录
Micro Focus公司2008年11月表示，将联合微软Azure 服务平台为企业用户提供COBOL应用软件计划。作为企业的现代化战略，这将有助于微软Azure 服务平台的推广，同时利用Micro Focus公司的COBOL应用软件为云计算提供重点软件和服务的技术平台。
微软 Azure 服务平台使企业用户能够以较高的性价比运行关键应用软件。同时，它还能够在服务平台的数据中心上有效的实施付费制度应用。
这项计划的宣布进一步扩展了Micro Focus公司和微软在联合技术战略上合作的加深。此外，该计划将允许企业将COBOL应用软件应用到云计算领域或是私人云服务供应商，或提供给云计算应用软件的整个市场环境。
对于云计算计划来说，其模型还能够进一步巩固双方的合作和虚拟化全球业务模式的推广，并有望成为减少未来投资需求一个重要的因素。
