FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MICRO FOCUS TRANSFORMS BUSINESS MANAGEMENT WITH NEW APPLICATION PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

- Micro Focus launches Enterprise View to improve multinationals' performance levels-

NEWBURY, England and ROCKVILLE, Md., May 1, 2007- Micro Focus®(Micro Focus; LSE: MCRO.L), a leader in enterprise application management and modernization solutions, today announces the latest in Application Portfolio Management (APM) solutions with the launch of Micro Focus Enterprise View™. Taking the risk out of change, Enterprise View delivers powerful business management tools to global customers. Micro Focus' APM solution accelerates application understanding and promotes strategic action by allowing customers to build an accurate, timely and detailed view of their entire application portfolio, complete with its value to the business and cost of ownership. This ensures that application modernization projects are undertaken and completed in line with real business needs, based on a thorough knowledge of the organization's existing IT assets.

The launch of Enterprise View formally completes the integration of technology that Micro Focus obtained with its recent acquisition of HAL Knowledge Systems of Milan, Italy. Micro Focus customers taking advantage of the benefits of APM include financial services companies HSBC, Banca Intesa, Barclays, UBS as well as services provider IBM Global Services. Enterprise View extends and expands leading APM solutions from HAL Knowledge Systems, providing customers with global reach and global support for these leading solutions.

"Micro Focus APM solution gives us an accurate, up-to-date view across our whole applications portfolio and analyzes every platform, so we can identify areas that use a lot of resource and focus on cost reduction," said Andy Givens, Head of IT, Mainland Europe for HSBC. "Implementing APM as a disciplined process, we aim to reduce our IT costs by 10 percent per annum."

With automated and continuous collection of factual data about enterprise applications and their value to the business, Enterprise View delivers role-based dashboards appropriate to each level of the organization. It provides a robust and objective framework to support strategic modernization initiatives, such as off-shoring and outsourcing, post-merger and acquisition consolidation and IT architectural rationalization.

In a recent research note, Gartner, Inc. states "Gartner strongly suggests that companies implement an application portfolio management effort to clarify the value, cost and risk of their situations and drive any modernization decisions. Using this strategy, organizations can prioritize their application workloads according to business need and technological status and make modernization decisions accordingly." ^[1]

Micro Focus Enterprise View enables customers to determine the most appropriate path to a more responsive and efficient IT operation, so that IT decisions can be communicated clearly and application maintenance activities carried out and monitored more effectively than ever before, even when much of that activity might have been outsourced.

"Enterprise View is Micro Focus' most important launch to date," said Stephen Kelly, chief executive officer, Micro Focus. "This solution takes the very best of Micro Focus and HAL and offers these leading technologies at a global level. Our customers already save millions of dollars thanks to our existing solutions - Enterprise View will transform the way many companies around the world achieve success."

About Micro Focus

Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization and Management software enables customers' business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com.

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Micro Focus is a registered trademark and Enterprise View is a trademark of Micro Focus. All other products and companies mentioned in this announcement are trademarks of their respective organizations.