WHEN I WAS nine years old, with dimples that everyone told me were cute – this doesn’t happen any more – I lived in America for a few months. It was 1982, two years before Michael Dell created the company that bears his name, and we’d moved because my dad had landed a job in the US office of Micro Focus. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because the British firm recently made a rare foray into the newspaper headlines with its $8.8 billion purchase of HP Enterprise’s software wing.
Many memories still shine brightly from my brief time in the US, from being the best in my year at “soccer”, to rollercoasters that made their UK cousins look like toys. Perhaps appropriately, I saw those in a theme park…
