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Short Take: Micro Focus becomes Merant

Business software firm Micro Focus Group is changing its name to Merant, following a recent merger. The $87.2 million company, which bought Mountain View-based Intersolv last year, will trade on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol MRN and on the Nasdaq under the symbol MRNT. The company is focused on building enterprise applications, application development management, and enterprise data connectivity.

Kim Girard
Kim Girard has written about business and technology for more than a decade, as an editor at CNET News.com, senior writer at Business 2.0 magazine and online writer at Red Herring. As a freelancer, she's written for publications including Fast Company, CIO and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She also assisted Business Week's Peter Burrows with his 2003 book Backfire, which covered the travails of controversial Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. An avid cook, she's blogged about the joy of cheap wine and thinks about food most days in ways some find obsessive.
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Kim Girard
Business software firm is changing its name to Merant, following a recent merger. The $87.2 million company, which bought Mountain View-based Intersolv last year, will trade on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol MRN and on the Nasdaq under the symbol MRNT. The company is focused on building enterprise applications, application development management, and enterprise data connectivity.