It was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2005. In 2001 the business was demerged from Merant with help from Golden Gate Capital Partners and once again became Micro Focus. 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. And your homepage seems to be currently down, BTW.The company was founded in 1976. Once I get my storage usage under control, I'm beginning a move to FreeBSD. I'm a RHCE, SuSE something, Microsoft something, Novell CNE, and what-all else, or at least was - retired, so guess I don't count anymore. You might be interested in the Debian vote for SystemD. RedHat also supports a few you might have heard of. Oh, Debian is the literal base for a bunch of distros, including Ubuntu. And who better than your distro maintainer? And then no reason at all, guess who SystemD's main author, Pottering, is employed by? The best thing about domain interpreters is that in a must-work complex situation is that you have to call for help.

And if you look at some of the bugs Pottering has declared WONTFIX (referred to by that random ignored bastion of unworthyness -) you begin to wonder. SystemD hasn't broken on me yet, but I've heard horror stores of non-standard or even not-quite-mainstream configs that work and then they suddenly won't. And on any breakage, even better, now YOU'RE confused as well, and even worse YOU literally don't know what's going on. wait, what ARE you doing? What IS that? Never mind, I'll just ignore it.' And it gets confused or out of sync. The moment you take one minor baby step outside what they expect or control, it all goes to Hell. That is, as long as you stay WITHIN their domain and do things as expected. They make all of the hard stuff 'go away', kinda like programming libraries. 'Domain interpreters', if you will, are superb at what they do. They're easy to use, helpful, and just work. SystemD is 2010s version of Microsoft wizards of the 1990s. All the main distros use it because it is good, a huge improvement.

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