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Micro Focus tables ‘Tech-Manifesto’ at House of Lords
Blog Micro Focus used the Cholmondeley Room on Westminster Terrace to launch its Technology Manifesto. Normally I’d expect Micro Focus to talk about enterprise application management and modernisation solutions, such as its ReUZE product, which it...
[July 22, 2009, 13:42]
Micro Focus signs with Microsoft's Azure
Blog 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 applications running Micro Focus software as software...
[October 28, 2008, 12:33]
Micro Focus appoints Waters as CEO
News Waters, who will be based in the company's California offices, is said to be more focussed on professional services and client/server solutions, a direction which Micro Focus started to take last year, following Gumucio's appointment.
[July 18, 1997, 11:57]
Micro Focus buys Borland in $75m deal
News Enterprise application management company Micro Focus said on Wednesday it has bought ailing competitor Borland for $75m, a move that marks the end of one of the longest-lasting names in the PC software business.
[May 6, 2009, 16:11]
Micro Focus: IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills
News The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernising key IT assets, according to a survey by application-management company Micro Focus. Part of the problem is that businesses are now focusing on newer areas such as Web 2.0, without...
[December 1, 2008, 17:11]
MS, Micro Focus team to shine COBOL apps
News Despite the rush to languages such as C, C++ and Java, Micro Focus claims over 150 billion lines of COBOL code are still in use today, often running mission critical applications in very large organisations.
[February 5, 1998, 10:19]
Micro Focus shares plunge
News Despite the setback, the company expects to meet profit and revenue plans for the year, according to CEO Martin Waters, but this was not enough to stop the share slide down to 2490p. More News | ZDNet
[January 13, 1998, 16:00]
Julian Dobbins, Micro Focus
Talkback Without clear visbility into the complex projects that IT are faced with today, it is little wonder that many tech projects exceed their budget. Having the right portfolio management tools and processes in place is vital, both in determining how...
[September 21, 2007, 17:58]
Andy Sinclair, Micro Focus
Talkback Stephen Timms is right to highlight that education and training is imperative if Britain is to avert the impending skills crisis with which it is faced. Most crucially however, this training must be given whilst catering to the needs of a business...
[October 25, 2007, 14:01]
Cobol moves into Amazon's cloud
News Micro Focus is extending its Enterprise Cloud Services to support Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), allowing businesses to shift their existing Cobol applications to Amazon's infrastructure. The move, announced on Tuesday, follows Micro Focus's...
[January 15, 2009, 14:39]
CIOs urged to adopt portfolio management tools
News Enterprise software management vendor Micro Focus has launched a new version of its Enterprise View product, 5.6, that is intended to help with application portfolio management and other areas. Announced on Wednesday, Micro Focus claims the tool...
[March 5, 2008, 17:02]
Reuze simplifies move from mainframe to Windows
News Micro Focus on Wednesday launched a tool for migrating business processes from the mainframe to Windows, without having to rewrite applications. It is aimed at companies that primarily use Windows but still rely on some mainframe Cobol applications...
[July 16, 2009, 16:58]
Recession-driven development testing blindness syndrome
Blog This was the argument put to me by application management software company Micro Focus after they carried out a survey (oh god not another one) of 1,350 IT practitioners in organisations with revenues from $10 million to over $20 billion.
[August 18, 2009, 12:40]
Latest language in Web services: Cobol
News There will be a beta version of Cobol for .Net Server in February," said Ian Archbell, vice president of product management at Micro Focus. Micro Focus is planning to launch a version of its Cobol compiler for Microsoft's new .Net Server operating...
[November 7, 2002, 8:46]
COBOL keeps on rolling along
Blog Just this week there have been rumblings from the belly of corporate publicity that feeds application management company Micro Focus. What ever your level of scepticism - I have to quote a figure from Micro Focus which I have been unable to verify.
[July 9, 2008, 16:21]
Easing Cobol into a Web-shaped world
News Micro Focus customers are solving their integration issues by just this step now, though. Micro Focus is a survivor of a few turns round the track, and now an independent private VC-backed firm of some 400+ employees.
[February 4, 2004, 12:45]
Intel flexes muscle at Pentium III launch
News We were surprised when they went ahead and called this 'Pentium III' instead of some variation on Pentium II," said Peter Glaskowsky, an analyst at chip technology watcher Micro Design Resources. Instead, Intel is focusing on the Pentium III as a...
[February 18, 1999, 9:08]
Experts gather for cybercrime conference
News Douglas Otis of Trend Micro plans to give a talk on how email authentication technology called Sender ID could be abused to launch denial-of-service attacks, he said. Among those scheduled to attend are representatives from security firms such as...
[January 22, 2007, 15:11]
Silicon's skills survey provides interesting...
Talkback Recent research by Micro Focus of 650 customers and prospects revealed that more than three-quarters of CIOs expect the recruitment of COBOL programmers to remain a key focus of their IT departments over the next five years, while 73 percent...
[August 13, 2007, 12:51]
Happy 50th Birthday COBOL
Blog COBOL today underpins a huge amount of global ATM transactions, and according to enterprise application management company Micro Focus, is currently running nearly three quarters of the world’s business applications.
[September 18, 2009, 17:38]
