[mark_undoio]

I don't think there are many big UK computer companies that haven't been absorbed by something else.

There was Microfocus: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/home They owned SuSE at one time. But MicroFocus now have owners outside the UK.

And there was Autonomy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Autonomy Bought by HP, leading to lots of controversy and legal wrangling when they did get what they had expected.

[masfuerte]

Many Autonomy people went to Darktrace. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darktrace

[stevekemp]

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.

[mark_undoio]

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.