Transaction in Own Shares

23rd August 2011

Micro Focus International plc

Transaction in own shares

 Micro Focus International plc announces that, on 22 August 2011, it purchased through Numis Securities Limited 345,890 Ordinary Shares of 10 pence each at an average price of 250.279 pence per share. The highest price and lowest price paid for these shares was 252.0 and 241.0 pence respectively. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares. The number of ordinary shares purchased represented approximately 0.2% of the voting rights attributable to the total ordinary shares in issue prior to such purchases.

In accordance with the provisions of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules of the Financial Services Authority, the Company confirms that its issued share capital comprises 206,023,836 Ordinary Shares of 10 pence each, of which 8,552,882 Ordinary Shares are held in Treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 197,470,954.

The above figure (197,470,954) may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules.