Micro Focus Interactive Israel Ltd. (formerly Entco Interactive (Israel) Limited) is an Israeli-registered software company with offices in Yehud / Yahud-Monoson, Israel; its registered activity is the sale and support of software. It is a subsidiary of Micro Focus International plc, the UK enterprise-software vendor headquartered in Newbury, Berkshire. Micro Focus International reported revenue of US$4,754.4m for the 18 months ended 31 October 2018 and stated it had over 12,000 employees in its FY2019 annual report. It was listed on the LSE (MCRO) until OpenText Corporation (NASDAQ/TSX: OTEX) acquired it on 31 January 2023 for approximately US$5.8bn; Micro Focus is now a wholly-owned OpenText subsidiary.
The Israeli unit's lineage traces to Mercury Interactive, the application-testing vendor HP bought in 2006 for $4.5bn. That business passed to Hewlett Packard Enterprise and then to Micro Focus through the September 2017 HPE Software merger ($8.8bn). The Israel site supports Micro Focus's Application Delivery Management line — including LoadRunner, Performance Center, StormRunner and Mobile Center — for application performance, load and mobile testing, alongside the broader portfolio of DevOps, hybrid-IT, security and analytics software.
Litigation posture: operating-company defendant only. In the tracked data the entity appears once, as a defendant and never as plaintiff — consistent with a practising software vendor rather than a patent-assertion entity. The appearance is in the Eastern District of Texas (Sherman Division, Judge Mazzant), a plaintiff-friendly venue.
Notable case: Wapp Tech LP et al. v. Micro Focus International PLC et al. (No. 4:18-cv-469), filed 2 July 2018. Wapp, which also sued HPE, Wells Fargo and Bank of America on the same patents, accused Micro Focus's LoadRunner and Performance Center products of infringing three patents covering mobile-application testing and network virtualization. The court dismissed Micro Focus International plc for lack of personal jurisdiction in 2019, and Wapp substituted subsidiaries including EntCo Interactive (Israel) Ltd. A jury returned a $172.5m verdict for Wapp in 2021; Micro Focus settled for $67.5m with a worldwide licence to the asserted patents.