To many organizations in the last few years, Legacy Modernization has meanth rehosting in Microfocus. This has allowed organizations to move from Mainframes to Unix (or even Windows) platforms, and reduce their hardware and infrastructure costs. But it now Microfocus has increased the licensing costs, and organizations are again feeling the pain.

These days we are getting more and more interest from organizations where Microfocu's costs is becoming too much. This is particularily so with ISV, where the cost of re-distribution of their software is biting hard.

I can see the MicroFocus's reasoning - with license costs lower than that associated with running Mainframe the end-users are still making a good saving.

None-the-less, the whole thing must still be worring to their end users. First they buy out a large number of competitors, and then, suddenly they increase their licensing costs.

Is this a sign of things to come? The  license costs can be pushed higher and higher, but with little competition, and userbase have will not have much choice.

I for one, would like to thank MicroFocus for this strategy. This is making a proper modernization to Java/C# a more viable option. Here at SoftwareMining we are aleady seening a lot of Microfocus's unhappy clients who have just had enough of Microfocus and COBOL.