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Microsoft has refused to say openly whether it will be extending the patent-licensing deal that it signed with Novell back in 2006. At that time, SUSE Linux was a part of Novell.

The German Linux company, SUSE, plans to increase staff numbers by up to 150 personnel in the next six months, SUSE global marketing and alliances chief Michael Miller said today.

Australian and New Zealand CIOs are more inclined to outsource mainframe application development and testing rather than use in-house resources, according to a newly published global survey.

Has application lifecycle management (ALM) passed its use-by date? Some CIOs apparently think so.

An analysis by Borland shows that a number of well-known Australian web stores failed to keep up with the amount of traffic they generated during the post-Christmas period.

Terminal emulation is a technology that just won't die: it'll be around as long as there are devices and programs that expect to talk to a terminal. So it isn't surprising that Micro Focus is still developing its Rumba line of terminal emulation software.

Borland has updated its Silk Test automated testing software to handle software running on Windows 8.

A slim majority of Australian mainframe users prefer to update their in-house applications to gain new features rather than replacing them with commercial packages.

With Silk Mobile, mobile application testing becomes 'just another test' according to Micro Focus officials.

Micro Focus (LSE:MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernisation, testing and management solutions, has announced Caliber 10.1, the latest from the company's Borland testing and management product portfolio. The update to the Caliber product line provides even deeper integration between requirements definition and management (RDM) to help organisations increase collaboration between teams, improve the reaction time to changing requirements and reduce costs of producing quality software.

Standish Group has recently issued a report describing the risk of failure of major IT projects, citing the dangers of rewriting core business applications or replacing them with generic packages. In 2011, there were well-documented ERP and other software project horror stories, including the RIM and Amazon outages, highlighting the challenges and business-critical nature of having the right IT infrastructure in place.

Micro Focus (LSE:MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernisation, testing and management solutions, has announced that CSC (NYSE: CSC), a global leader in providing client business and technology- enabled solutions and services, is using Micro Focus technologies to offer end-to-end enterprise software for banking, cards, payments and lending across a broader range of platforms and operating systems.

Micro Focus (LSE:MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernisation,testing and management solutions, today announced the launch of Borland StarTeam 12.0. The new suite of change management tools increases and extends interoperability of application lifecycle management (ALM) tools and asset types across software development teams. This helps to overcome traditional development barriers such as lack of cross-tool visibility and inefficient collaboration.

Micro Focus SilkPerformer has been enhanced with the ability to carry out performance testing of mobile web applications.

Micro Focus Server Enterprise Edition for PL/I promises to migrate IBM mainframe applications written in PL/I to lower-cost platforms with minimal changes.

Micro Focus (LSE:MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernisation, testing and management solutions, today announced the general availability of SilkTest 2011. The new suite of application testing software enables organisations to achieve the highest level of quality, flexibility and scalability possible throughout the entire software development lifecycle.

Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today released Micro Focus Test Server [1] a unique technology that will accelerate testing processes while significantly reducing operating costs. Customers such as the largest listed Portuguese bank, Banco Espirito Santo (BES), are implementing Micro Focus Test Server to enable them to improve software quality by increasing available mainframe test capacity on a Windows platform. Micro Focus Test Server is an IBM z/OS compatible environment where application execution behaves just as it would on the target production mainframe. This makes it possible to perform a broad range of pre-production testing on readily available hardware. Testing capacity can now be easily increased to meet business-critical timeframes without incurring prohibitive costs.

The world's top banks are recognising the role of IT in supporting growth and innovation in an increasingly competitive market where customer demand is becoming ever more sophisticated. Every one of the top 10 global banks, including household names like Barclays, have turned to Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernisation, testing and management solutions, to help them modernise their business-critical applications. These organisations and a number of other leading banks around the world - such as ABN-AMRO, Banco di Desio, DnB Nor, Lloyds Banking Group, RBS, Standard Bank and Standard Chartered Bank -- have adopted more flexible IT environments with a view to improve staff productivity, customer satisfaction and time to market for new services.

Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announced that the company has accepted the 2011 Microsoft Technology Partner of the Year Award in the Technology Innovation category recognising the company's Visual COBOL R3 solution.

Micro Focus has updated its Silk integrated testing suite.