[Info-vax] Micro Focus Merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Software Business Segment

[David Froble]

Neil Rieck wrote:
> On Thursday, September 8, 2016 at 12:46:00 AM UTC-4, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>> On Thursday, 8 September 2016 01:40:04 UTC+1, Kerry Main  wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On
>>>> Behalf Of Neil Rieck via Info-vax
>>>> Sent: 07-Sep-16 6:02 PM
>>>> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
>>>> Cc: Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca>
>>>> Subject: [Info-vax] Micro Focus Merger with Hewlett
>>>> Packard Enterprise's Software Business Segment
>>>>
>>>> This just hit my INBOX
>>>>
>>>> Neil Rieck
>>>> Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
>>>>
>>>> #####
>>>>
>>>> Micro Focus Merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise's
>>>> Software Business Segment
>>>>
>>>> Today Micro Focus announced its intention to merge with
>>>> HPE Software and subject to the satisfaction of a number
>>>> of conditions including shareholder and regulatory
>>>> approvals, the merger is anticipated to complete in Q3
>>>> 2017.
>>>>
>>>> The combination of Micro Focus and HPE Software will
>>>> deliver outstanding product capability to support today's
>>>> key IT and business initiatives in Mobile, Cloud, DevOps,
>>>> Internet of Things, Big Data and Analytics.
>>>>
>>>> Both businesses understand that today's organizations
>>>> need to maximize the value of their IT infrastructure in
>>>> order to innovate with the lowest possible risk. The
>>>> combined company will offer our customers more
>>>> capability and choice as they seek to maximize the
>>>> business value of existing IT assets, leveraging their
>>>> business logic and data to innovate in new ways – what
>>>> we call bridging the old and the new.
>>>>
>>>> HPE Software's software products are similar in nature and
>>>> complementary to our own, and following successful
>>>> completion will enable Micro Focus and its business
>>>> partners to offer significant additional customer value.
>>>> HPE Software's software solutions span across IT
>>>> Management, Enterprise Security, Information
>>>> Management & Governance and Big Data & Analytics. The
>>>> proposed Merger is entirely consistent with the Micro
>>>> Focus growth strategy, and brings additional depth and
>>>> breadth to the value we can offer on a global basis.
>>>>
>>>> Also, at the same time, Micro Focus and HPE announced
>>>> their intent to enter into a commercial partnership naming
>>>> SUSE as HPE's preferred Linux partner as well as exploring
>>>> additional collaboration leveraging SUSE's OpenStack
>>>> expertise for joint innovation around HPE's Helion
>>>> Openstack and Stackato Platform-as-a-Service solutions.
>>>>
>>>> This is an exciting and important development but I want
>>>> to assure you we will not be distracted from our goal of
>>>> delivering great products and the highest levels of service
>>>> in support of your business. Thank you for your
>>>> commitment to our products and our company. If you
>>>> have questions do not hesitate to contact your Micro
>>>> Focus account manager.
>>>>
>>>> Yours sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> Stephen Murdoch
>>>>  Chief Executive Officer, Micro Focus
>>>>
>>> In addition to this HPE software BU "merger" announcement, Micro Focus has been quietly ramping up with the acquisition of many SW products/ organizations. In addition to Cobol, Micro Focus has a pretty large App Modernization development suite of products for z/OS (mainframes)
>>>
>>> The following companies/products are now part of Micro Focus: (walk down memory lane)
>>>
>>> - Attachmate which also previously acquired Novell which also owns SUSE Linux. 
>>> - ZENworks mgmt. and security products from Novell
>>> - Borland
>>> - NetIQ Suite of products including eDirectory - a multiplatform directory solution (remember NDS?) that many would argue is vastly superior to Microsoft Active Directory.
>>> - Platespin (VMware V-V and P-V tools that are used quite a bit in DC / Server Consolidations)
>>> - Reflection / Rumba+ / Extra! Suite of terminal emulation Products
>>> - Groupwise
>>> - Serena Software (App Lifecycle manager for DevOPS)
>>>
>>> See the many products listed at:
>>> https://www.microfocus.com/products
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Kerry Main
>>> Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com
>> Didn't MicroFocus also end up owning SUSE Linux via Novell
>> and Attachmate? Which presumably leads to this bit of the 
>> press announcement:
>>
>> "Micro Focus and HPE announced their intent to enter into
>> a commercial partnership naming SUSE as HPE's preferred
>> Linux partner as well as exploring additional collaboration
>> leveraging SUSE's OpenStack expertise for joint innovation
>> around HPE's Helion Openstack and Stackato Platform-as-a-Service
>> solutions. "
>>
>> Which is nice.
> 
> I just obtained a DVD version of SuSE-11-SP4 for my rx2660 and it has been the only version of Linux that just auto-installed with no problems.
> 
> Now getting back to the announcement you quoted, I wonder if HPE will actively support Linux the way other companies (like IBM) do.
> 
> Neil Rieck
> Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/openvms_notes_linux.html
>  

Do you mean "ship the jobs to India", or "just ignore it like VMS" ??