#HPE MICRO FOCUS SOFTWARE#
“What we do… is, we take mature software and we extend the life of it for customers, and get more value from it by linking it to new technologies,” explained Micro Focus Executive Chairman Kevin Loosemore Wednesday. And it’s not the fancy, new, hyperscale workloads that Micro Focus is most concerned with. If you think OpenStack, Azure Stack, and vSphere will be the only truly viable options for deploying virtualized, platform-agnostic workloads, you’d best be advised to keep your options open. So you can see SUSE getting an increasing mindshare in the Linux marketplace.” We’re already in a position where SAP has taken our OpenStack for their HANA cloud.
#HPE MICRO FOCUS DRIVER#
“Recently, we announced that SUSE will be the driver behind Mirantis OpenStack. “We’re hoping that we’ll end up with a position where SUSE Linux will be the underlying driver behind the Helion OpenStack product,” stated Micro Focus Chief Financial Officer Mike Phillips, during his company’s own conference call Wednesday.
#HPE MICRO FOCUS WINDOWS#
Combined with assets Micro Focus has already accumulated, including Linux producer SUSE, by this time next year, the software company could provide a scalable, containerized stack for Windows and Linux applications, including applications lifecycle management, development tools, and a virtualization platform. And it’s actually not what we do it is what they do.”īy “what they do,” Whitman referred to Micro Focus’s core business in making old software work on new platforms. “And actually some of these assets should actually be maintained on a stable platform that extends the value for customers. “As Micro Focus will tell you, most people who work in the software business and Silicon Valley want to grow assets,” the CEO said. One frank admission that Whitman gave investors on Wednesday was that HPE, as a platforms company, was not interested in helping customers maintain legacy environments. The Cloud Company and the Software Company
HPE will retain its cloud-related and “hyperconvergence” projects, including Helion OpenStack. As CEO Meg Whitman told analysts Wednesday, those projects will be gathered together under the management of HPE’s Enterprise Group. The deal is pending approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which MF officials say can only come after a massive number of smaller transactions take place - a list that extends well into the third quarter of 2017.Īmong these transactions, Micro Focus will begin unraveling, one-by-one, the tangled strands of HPE’s old and proud software portfolio, including its venerable Operations Manager I (OMi, formerly called OpenView Operations). That stock will be distributed to HPE shareholders, not to the company, making them effectively 50.1 percent majority owners of the new Micro Focus. In the deal announced Wednesday, HPE will receive $6.3 billion in stock and $2.5 billion in cash from Micro Focus. Micro Focus has been a more integral part of the world’s technology infrastructure than most will ever realize - as important a player as Rackspace, Oracle, and VMware. The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners William Sorabella, David Feirstein and John Kupiec with David Fox and associates Clément Smadja and James Hu and tax partners Dean Shulman, Mike Carew and Vincent Thorn and associate Meg Dewar and finance partners Christopher Butler and Maureen Dixon and IP partners Gregg Kirchhoefer and Aaron Lorber.When Reuters called Micro Focus Thursday morning a “little-known British firm,” in a story explaining HPE’s $8.8 billion sale of its software division to the company, it missed the heart of a much more important story - one that’s been going on since the turn of the decade.
The combination of these assets will create one of the world’s largest pure-play software companies with annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion and EBITDA of approximately $1.35 billion. HPE is an industry-leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. Micro Focus is a global enterprise software company helping customers innovate faster with lower risk. Kirkland & Ellis LLP advised Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO.L) on the acquisition of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (NYSE: HPE) software business through a ‘Reverse Morris Trust’ structure in a transaction valued at approximately $8.8 billion.
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