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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Computer software |
| Defunct | November 20, 2014 (2014-11-20)[1] |
| Fate | Merged withMicro Focus International |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | |
| Revenue | US$1.2 billion (2010)[2] |
Number of employees | 4,000[2] |
| Parent | Micro Focus |
| Subsidiaries | |
| Website | www |
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The Attachmate Group, Inc. was a privately held software holding company based inHouston, Texas in the United States.[1] The major companies held by the group wereAttachmate,NetIQ,Novell, andSUSE.[1]
Attachmate was owned by Wizard Parent LLC—an investment group consisting ofElliott Management Corporation,Francisco Partners,Golden Gate Capital, andThoma Bravo.[3][failed verification]
In 1981, Doug Walker, Mike Richer and Marty Quinn founded Walker, Richer & Quinn (WRQ) to integrate microcomputers with existing IT environments. The company set its sights on the Hewlett-Packard market, launching the first commercially viableterminal emulator for theHP 3000. (Two subsidiaries,Express Metrix andNetMotion Wireless, had been spun off by WRQ in 2000 and 2001, respectively, and continued to operate successfully for years to come.)
After buying both WRQ, Inc. andAttachmate Corporation, who had been long-time competitors in the host emulation business, the private equity firms announced that the companies would be merged.[4] On June 1, 2005, the deal closed, and it was revealed that the two companies, merged into one, would be namedAttachmateWRQ.[5]
NetIQ, founded in 1995 by Ching-Fa Hwang, Her-daw Che, Hon Wong, Ken Prayoon Cheng and Thomas R. Kemp, was a company that providedsystems management andsecurity management software. Their products included AppManager and Security Manager.
On April 27, 2006, AttachmateWRQ announced an agreement to acquire NetIQ[6] On July 5, 2006, both companies released a press release announcing the closing of the deal. The new company would do business under the nameAttachmate Corporation.[7]
In 2006 AttachmateWRQ acquired OnDemand Software,[8] developer of WinINSTALL, a product similar to AttachmateWRQ's existingNetWizard product.
Two years later Scalable Software acquired the WinINSTALL business unit (substantially all assets of the former OnDemand) from Attachmate.[9]
Later, the company also acquiredThe Wollongong Group (makers of Pathway TCP and Emissary).[10]
In 2011 Attachmate acquiredNovell, Inc[11] and let go hundreds of Novell employees.[12] At this point the overseeing entity become known asThe Attachmate Group.
Novell subsequently operated as two separate business units under the Novell andSUSE brand names and joined Attachmate and NetIQ as holdings of The Attachmate Group. Certainintellectual property assets are planned to be sold toCPTN Holdings, a consortium of companies led byMicrosoft.[13]
On 15 September 2014, the British firmMicro Focus International announced that it would acquire the Attachmate Group forUS$1.2 billion in shares,[14][15][16] and Attachmate Group announced entering into a definitive agreement to merge with Micro Focus, with transaction to be closed in 2014-11-03.[17][18] Wizard Parent LLC was estimated to hold a 40% stake in Micro Focus following the acquisition.[14]
In 2014-11-05, Micro Focus International announced the completion of its merger with the Attachmate Group.[19]
In 2015-04-05, Micro Focus announced the completion of integratingAttachmate Group of companies that had been merged in 2014-11-20. During the integration period, the affected companies had been merged into a single organization. In the announced reorganization, NetIQ and Novell products would be part of Micro Focus portfolio.[20] SUSE was sold toEQT AB in 2019.[21]
Attachmate, founded by Pritt in 1982, was among the region's largest software developers in the late '90s and early '00s, with revenue of ...
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