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
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| Traded as | LSE: MCRO |
| Industry | Information technology |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Headquarters | Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom |
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| Products | Enterprise application integration and management software |
| Services | IT consulting |
| Revenue |  US$1.245 billion (2016)[2] |
| US$294.9 million (2016)[2] |
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| Profit | US$163.0 million (2016)[2] |
| Subsidiaries | Serena Software Borland Novell |
| Website | www |
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