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Microfocus is a name I've not heard in a good few years - the last time I heard of them was for their COBOL compilers, on SCO Unixware.

They're still making COBOL compilers, as far as I know - targeting Linux and with some modern style Dev tools too.

I guess it's a migration path for people getting rid of big iron but unable or uninterested in getting rid of the code they ran.