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Micro Focus Issues (Updated Jun 9, 2026) Not officially endorsed or supported. Click to join our forums Question? Email us: hpalumni.info@gmail.com How to get your LinkedIn profile to show the correct company for each position. LinkedIn Tips & Traps - Positions Contacts: Micro Focus UK and U.S. Headquarters [scroll down] Other countries: https://www.microfocus.com/about/contact/ Micro Focus is a completely separate company – not a legal successor to EDS or HPE. Which HP-related companies have me classified as a retiree or former employee? Due to acquisitions and spinoffs, may not be obvious: Which Company Employment verification for former employees of HP, HPE, and related companies -- worldwide. https://www.hpalumni.org/verif Received a "Potential Private Retirement Benefit" letter from U.S. Social Security? Saw an ad about unclaimed property? Who to contact: https://www.hpalumni.org/PotentialBenefitLetter If you have stock records or paper stock certificates for Micro Focus: Micro Focus Stock For those who transitioned to Micro Focus: - 401(k) Members report that the next 401(k) match payout was to be on the date of their transition. - Classified as a former employee or retiree of HPE. Treated as though you left HPE to join any other company. Entitled to whatever retiree coverage you qualified for at the time you left HPE. - Some HPE retirees who worked at HP before the 2015 split may qualify for the *HPInc* "Pre-2003" retiree medical program. Depending on your age and history with HP and predecessors, you may qualify for either the former, current, or DEC retiree medical plan. (For the more-generous former plan -- confusingly named "Pre-2003" -- you must have been born on or before June 30, 1957 -- unless your were in certain EER cycles or otherwise notified.) See detailed rules in the Summary Plan Description: https://www.hpalumni.org/HPIncHealthSPD.pdf If rules were misapplied or HP's records were in error, members have successfully appealed -- see page 40 of the SPD for the contact at Corporate. Fortune article summarizing breakup of Hewlett-Packard into HP Inc, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC, and Micro Focus. "Transaction valued at approximately $8.8 billion, including 50.1% ownership of the new combined company by HPE shareholders and a $2.5 billion cash payment to HPE." --original Sep 7, 2016 HPE announcement Pre-spinoff diagram of Micro Focus product history, including the product lines being acquired from HPE -- ArcSight, Autonomy, Mercury, Opsware, Peregrine, Tower, Vertica -- with the original HP acquisition price for each. MicroFocus-HPES Portfolio 4/1/17 Micro Focus sold the Atalla hardware security business (formerly part of HPE) Announcement Also sold the profitable 1,400-employee SUSE Linux business (formerly part of Novell) for $2.5 billion in cash. Announcement Financial Times The Register March and April, 2019: Under pressure from a hedge-fund investor, Micro Focus sold the profitable 1,400-employee SUSE Linux business (formerly part of Novell) for $2.5 billion in cash. Sale Completed "Micro Focus Sells Profitable Bits" Micro Focus bought for cash by OpenText. UK-based Micro Focus (NYSE American Depositary Shares: MFGP) purchased for cash by Canada-based OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX.) Cash payment 532 UK pence (approx US$6.43) per share -- a 90% premium over the MFGP share price before announcement. Details of payout: https://otp.tools.investis.com/clients/uk/micro_focus1/rns/regulatory-story.aspx?cid=108&newsid=1665079 OpenText will "...reduce the workforce by approximately 8%... Micro Focus embarked on an acquisition spree... including Borland, Attachmate Group, and HPE’s Software biz... ...revenue for the 12 months ended 31 October was down 7 percent... Good luck to all involved." OpenText completes Micro Focus buy OpenText is funding the deal with $4.6 billion in new debt, $1.3 billion in cash, and $0.6 billion in revolving credit.
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