In a move that will collect a lot of infrastructure software under one roof, mainframe software provider Micro Focus has started proceedings to merge with Attachmate Group, owners of Novell and Suse Linux, for about $1.2 billion.

The combined company should have yearly revenue of $1.4 billion, with more than 4,500 employees and more than 30,000 customers, Micro Focus said.

A merger of the companies makes sense given that both are established enterprise software vendors with global marketing reach and little overlap in either products or customers, said Kevin Loosemore, Micro Focus executive chairman, in a statement. Attachmate purchased enterprise software vendor Novell in 2011 for $2.2 billion.

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