bought by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Focus

The company was founded in 1976,[4] and in its early years, concentrated on COBOL products. In 1981, it became the first company to win the Queen’s Award for Industry purely for developing a software product. The product was CIS COBOL, a standard-compliant COBOL implementation for microcomputers.[5]

Cobol is / was largely used to write banking software.

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-banks-still-using-COBOL

Public
Traded as LSEMCRO
Industry Information technology
Founded 1976
Headquarters Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Key people
  • Kevin Loosemore (Executive Chairman)[1]
  • Stephen Murdoch (CEO)[1]
Products Enterprise application integration and management software
Services IT consulting
Revenue Increase US$1.245 billion (2016)[2]
Increase US$294.9 million (2016)[2]
Profit Increase US$163.0 million (2016)[2]
Subsidiaries Serena Software
Borland
Novell
Website www.microfocus.com

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