>After looking a an SEC filing, I noticed that MS owns 6,720,430 shares of Borland. That tranlates to 10.8% of Borland's outstanding shares.
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>As a shareholder, I'm trying to figure out if this is good or bad. It's probably both. It sure is interestng though.
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>What does this mean for VFP? Probably nothing. I just threw the question out there hoping to keep this post from being moved to the Chatter forum.

Posted at 10:22 a.m. PDT; Tuesday, June 8, 1999

Ex-rival Inprise gets big Microsoft investment


by Tom Quinlan and Miguel Helft
San Jose Mercury News
Inprise, a faltering Silicon Valley icon, today got a $125 million cash infusion from what once would have been the unlikeliest angel of mercy: Microsoft.

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Now it's counting on the money from Microsoft to buy it enough time to regain the success it enjoyed in the 1980s. The money comes in two parts: a $25 million stock purchase - good for, at most, 10 percent of the company - and a $100 million payment as part of a broad patent cross-licensing agreement between the companies. Microsoft made a similar $150 million investment in Apple Computer two years ago.

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/technology/html98/borl_19990608.html