Micro Focus International plc Announces
Acquisition of Liant

Micro Focus International plc ("Micro Focus", "the Company" LSE: MCRO.L) announces that it has acquired Liant Software Corporation (“Liant”) for a total cash consideration of US$5.0 million, paid in full on completion.

Liant is a provider of software tools for developing business information systems and solutions to help transform existing business applications and processes into modern and robust distributed application software systems. Liant’s technology is highly complementary to Micro Focus’ business and the acquisition provides the opportunity for Micro Focus to expand its portfolio of Enterprise Application Management solutions, especially to include additional programming language capabilities, such as PL/I.

In the year to December 2007, Liant generated a loss before tax of US$0.4 million and its gross assets as at 31 December 2007 were US$2.0 million. Following the acquisition, Micro Focus plans to restructure the business and aims to increase margins over time to a level consistent with Micro Focus’ existing business. The consequent restructuring charge is expected to be approximately US$2.0 million in the financial year to 30 April 2009.

Stephen Kelly, Chief Executive, commented:

"The acquisition of Liant is consistent with Micro Focus’ strategy of expanding our core areas of expertise. As a result of this corporate development, Micro Focus is even better equipped to offer customers a broad range of choices as they modernise their core IT systems to meet their business objectives.”

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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.

About Liant

Liant Software Corporation is a privately held company having facilities in Austin (Texas), London (England), and Framingham (Massachusetts).   Liant has business partners and distributors in 65 countries throughout the world, and has more than 5,000 customer organizations, including leading independent software vendors and Fortune 1000 corporations.  Liant’s success and longevity in the systems software marketplace provide unmatched experience, proven technology and stability for its customers.