The Attachmate Group

This article is about the entity owned by private equity firms and run by Jeff Hawn from 2005 to 2014. For the original Attachmate founded and run by Frank Pritt that existed from 1982 to 2005, see Attachmate.

The Attachmate Group, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Computer software
Defunct	November 20, 2014 (2014-11-20)
Fate	Merged with Micro Focus International
Headquarters	Houston, Texas , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jeff Hawn (chairman and CEO) Charles Sansbury (COO and CFO)
Revenue	US$1.2 billion (2010)
Number of employees	4,000
Parent	Micro Focus
Subsidiaries	Attachmate NetIQ Novell
Website	www.attachmategroup.com

The Novell building in Provo, Utah, in 2013 during the Attachmate Group era

SuSE employees at a Beijing conference, in 2014 during the Attachmate Group era

The Attachmate Group, Inc. was a privately held software holding company based in Houston, Texas in the United States. The major companies held by the group were Attachmate, NetIQ, Novell, and SUSE.

Attachmate was owned by Wizard Parent LLC—an investment group consisting of Elliott Management Corporation, Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital, and Thoma Bravo.