back to article Micro Focus posts pre-HPE Software borg numbers

It's the last set of results it'll post before its $8.8bn spin merge deal with HPE Software, and the UK's Micro Focus is keen to show it has a clean bill of health. The software company reported unaudited revenues of about $1.38bn for year ended 30 April 2017, up 10.9 per cent from about $1.25bn on year ended 30 April 2016. …

  1. Nick Kew
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    Share price crashed on today's news. Market expected better.

    No insights?

  2. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    That looks like quite a healthy company.

    Let's see if that lasts after it hooks up with these guys.

    1. Nick Kew

      Re: That looks like quite a healthy company.

      Micro Focus has a long history of gobbling up former-big-name companies that have fallen into apparent irrelevance (like Borland and Novell), and making a profitable business of them. I believe they have a time machine where COBOL lives on and flourishes.

  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Micro Focus is going to have just an enormous portfolio with HPE.

    1. Anonymous Coward
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      All of it the parts that HPE didn't want.

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