>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.

Actually this is pretty old hat. The story goes that Microsoft did this to keep Borland alive during the height of the anti-trust trial. There's a much better case for Anti-Trust case against MS in development tools than there is with the OS and this was just one way for MS to keep *some* of the competition alive.

It was also related to the fact that Borland was the largest provider of Java tools for Windows at the time when MS had to dump J++...