OpenText buys Micro Focus: job cuts ahead

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OpenText buys Micro Focus: job cuts ahead
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OpenText buys Micro Focus: job cuts ahead

Canada's OpenText completes its $5.8bn acquisition of UK's Micro Focus, 8% of jobs to go

OpenText completed its massive $5.8 billion acquisition Tuesday of fellow software and cybersecurity specialist Micro Focus, creating one of the world's largest information management and security ...

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