MICRO FOCUS APPOINTS JORGE DINARES AS VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES FOR EMEA, LATIN AMERICA AND ASIA PACIFIC

-Experienced Executive to Further Strengthen Global Sales-

NEWBURY, England, 7 October, 2008 – Micro Focus today announced the appointment of Jorge Dinares as Vice President of Sales for EMEA, Latin America and Asia Pacific. With more than twenty years of experience leading successful sales teams across multiple geographies for international technology companies, Dinares will take responsibility for all Micro Focus’ sales, services, channels and marketing operations in these geographies.

“Jorge is a first class leader with a track record that perfectly complements our commitment to flawless sales execution at Micro Focus,” said Marc Andrews, Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing. “I am very confident Jorge’s skills will be extremely valuable as we step up to meet increasing levels of customer demand and take Micro Focus to its next phase of growth.” Dinares is one of three regional leaders reporting to Marc Andrews. The other two geographies are North America and Japan.

Prior to joining Micro Focus, Dinares was CEO at Panda Securities, a leading provider of international security solutions with presence in 56 countries and operating in 23 languages. Before this, Dinares spent 12 years at BMC Software in a succession of leadership roles, most recently as Global Vice President for Growth and Emerging Markets, leading the fastest developing regions of the business in EMEA, Latin America and US, and achieving 40% growth rates for this newly created business unit. Other roles at BMC included Vice President of Southern Europe and Vice President of Professional Services. Dinares also spent nine years at Oracle, and was a key member of the team that founded the company’s Spanish subsidiary, where he went on to lead successful sales teams.

“The Micro Focus modernisation proposition is wholly aligned with today’s corporate agenda to reduce costs and boost productivity,” commented Jorge Dinares. “I am very excited to bring my international experience to a high growth, profitable software company. Micro Focus has great solutions, great customers and very large market opportunity that I look forward to addressing as part of a successful sales leadership team.”

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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