Micro Focus reviews

Management at Microfocus should have stuck with mainframe, as they really have no clue about ALM. I sometimes wonder if they used a Ouija Board to determine what to acquire (and why), because they never seemed to have any coherent vision, or did they ever have the ability to execute properly on integrating the acquisitions from a sales or strategy perspective. There really seemed to be no vision behind the acquisitions of Borland and Compuware, and the Newbury crowd never figured out how to develop a vision that was in touch with reality. I'm not sure what opportunity they are poised to leverage with the Borland tools. They are months and years behind most of their competitors due to decisions that management made derailing any potential for progress since June 2009. And sure, while they still have a core development team they've lost just anyone associated with them who had a clue (virtually everyone of consequence from a leadership perspective) over the past year -- from those they carelessly RIFFed to save money, to Product Managers, Product Owners, and the Chief Scientist who have bailed since then. Chief villains: the CTO and the Executive Chairman. And they're still there, so abandon all hope.

Previous mis-steps were a drag - it's getting better now but need to not repeat. Innovation was left in the past and there wasn't an interest in driving forward new technologies - now that the new exec team has made their changes, these cons don't really exist anymore. Obviously, like any other company, Micro Focus has it's share of issues but overall, compared to a year ago, the good outweighs the bad. Micro Focus, for it's customers, is big enough to matter yet small enough to care.