The same year the company acquired XDB Systems with their XDB Enterprise Server relational database management system.
In 1998, the company acquired Intersolv, Inc., an applications enablement business, for US$534 million and the combined business was renamed Merant. The product was CIS COBOL, a standard-compliant COBOL implementation for microcomputers. In 1981, it became the first company to win the Queen's Award for Industry purely for developing a software product. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange until it was acquired by the Canadian software firm OpenText in January 2023. The firm provided software and consultancy. Micro Focus International plc was a British multinational software and information technology business based in Newbury, Berkshire, England.
