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Amid a boardroom rejig to pursue more M&A action, shares in London Stock Exchange-listed Micro Focus crashed today after financial results filed for the half-year ended October 31 fell short of analysts' expectations. The infrastructure software slinger reported revenue of $1.234bn, up 80.3 per cent year-on-year, flattered by …

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  1. Korev Silver badge
    Joke

    "sales execution issues"

    Well, I guess execution is one way of motivating the salesforce

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    1. EarthDog
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      It gives a whole new meaning to "reduction in head count".

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    2. CentralCoasty
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      Well I'm all for it!

      Are they recruiting for the executioners?

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  2. ColinJ

    mergers seem stale

    all the companies they bought seem well stale, who buys Borland, Attachmate, NetIQ, Novell and Serena Software anymore?

    or am I missing something?

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    1. ArthurKinnell
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      Re: mergers seem stale

      You would be surprised on the ex Novell product front.

      Filr, ZENworks, OES and GroupWise all doing well and receiving very regular new releases and updates.

      I attend a couple of MicroFocus summits a year, and year on year there are more and more companies there.

      NHS, Government, Education, Sky, automotive, finance and legal sectors are still big buyers.

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