SilkTest 2011 download ready

Starting today QA Testers can download SilkTest 2011 trial version from Micro Focus web site. SilkTest 2011 adds support for Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flex and enhances cross browser support by adding Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 5 and Firefox 6 browsers. Additional enhancements for regression and functional testing with Micro Focus Silk Test 2011 include User Access Compliance (UAC) for Microsoft Windows 7 to support effective testing in standard user privileges.

Borland is no more

The acquisition of the famous Borland by Micro Focus is complete. By acquiring Borland, Micro Focus is looking to take on Hewlett Packard, who is the leading provider of application testing tools with its HP Quality Center based on technology it acquired from Mercury Interactive a few years ago.

Micro Focus Silktest

In May Borland Software said that it has agreed to be acquired in its entirety by Micro Focus International in a $75 million cash transaction, unanimously approved by the boards of both companies.

Micro Focus currently support object-oriented COBOL compilers targeting the .NET framework and most likely expects the Borland acquisition to help it gain greater market share, increase its customer base, and capture a larger penetration of the U.S. technology market

A few words about Micro Focus from Wikipedia :

The company was founded in 1976 and became Micro Focus Group in 1983. In its early years it concentrated on COBOL products. In 1998 the Company acquired Intersolv Inc, an applications enablement business, for $534 million and the combined business was renamed Merant. In 2001 the business was demerged from Merant with help from Golden Gate Capital Partners and once again became Micro Focus. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2005. On 6 May 2009, it announced the purchase of Borland and the Quality Solutions part of Compuware.

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