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Micro Focus Issues (Page updated Jul 5, 2026) (Links verified Jul 5, 2026) Not officially endorsed or supported. Click to join our forums Question? Email us: info@hpalumni.org How to get your LinkedIn profile to show the correct company for each position. LinkedIn Tips & Traps - Positions Info and HPAA member advice on Micro Focus stock for HP/HPE shareholders: Micro Focus Stock Micro Focus was 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 Worldwide employment verification and other HR matters for Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and related companies. Employment and Experience Verification Received a "Potential Private Retirement Benefit" letter from U.S. Social Security? How to decode and who to contact: "Potential Benefit" letter 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 split may qualify for the HP Inc "Pre-2003" retiree medical program. "Pre-2003" refers to the year when HP implemented the program, not your retirement year. HP: "May apply if you retired from HP before 2003, or if you were with HP on December 31, 2002, and retired at a later date with eligibility for the program (this typically meant retiring at age 55 or later with at least 15 years of qualifying service, having at least 62 age-plus-service 'points' as of December 31, 2005, and being within five years of qualifying as of June 30, 2007). This program generally does not apply if you joined HP through the Compaq or EDS acquisitions." Contact the HP Inc Benefits Center. Agents at the HPE Benefits Center may not know about this. Details: hpalumni.org/Pre2003 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) 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. "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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