Latest Micro Focus articles

Suitors line up to buy Micro Focus

A briefcase full of cash

Software company confirms interest of private equity houses

23 May 2011

Modernising and moving to the cloud

Micro Focus' Mark Haynie

Cobol in the cloud is not pie in the sky, says Mark Haynie

17 Feb 2011

Secure and realistic testing would prevent data leakage

Peter Mollins looks at organisations’ shaky defences during the testing process and what can be done to secure them

24 Nov 2009

COBOL stands the test of time

Most widely used computing language 50 ­ and still going strong despite predicted paucity of skills

11 Sep 2009

Lax data masking hits four in five firms

Study from Micro Focus and the Ponemon Institute finds 79 per cent of companies have suffered a data breach in the past year

18 Aug 2009

Skills shortage a ticking time bomb

Stephen Kelly calls on business to invest in the right skills to avoid post-recession disaster

02 Mar 2009

Micro Focus makes play to buy Relativity Technologies

Software vendor unveils $9.7m bid for application modernisation specialist

08 Dec 2008

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BYOD: balancing IT risk and productivity

Organisations must strike a balance between worker productivity and the security of social media/mobile devices

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Smart working in the 21st century

Overcoming technological limitations and traditional office cultures to free employees to do more with less from wherever they want to


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The editor's diary

Lessons learned

I've discovered that iPads are great for consuming, not so good for creating

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Dave the dealer

Life's a beach

With a triumvirate of VARs getting into sporting sponsorship, Dave runs the rule over the brand-building opportunities

View from the channel

Views from the Channel

Why Apple wants bigger bite of channel

Latest distribution sell-through figures indicate a softening in Apple's stance towards the channel, says CRN deputy editor Doug Woodburn