>>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.
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>It was part of a deal to port the CLR to Linux. It looks like that has falled through though.

That it has. Borland went with CLX, their cross-platform widget technology. It is based on the QT widget toolkit from TollTech. QT works on both WinXX and Linux and code written with it is can be compiled on either platform unchanged if certain simple measures are taken. (Primarily in compiler directives pointing to the correct Pascal Units for video and other services). QT widgets also power the KDE desktop GUI, the KOffice series, and about 4,000 other notable Linux applications, housed at SourceForge. Also at SourceForge is FreeCLX, the GPL based, QT derived widget set for Kylix Open Edition, the free version of Kylix.

Kylix sales have exploded exponentially. Most of the Kylix Desktop Edition ($99) sales seem to be by WinXX programmers porting their applictions over to Linux. Their Delphi skill set moves over intact to the Linux platform.

A service pack for the traditional version 1.0 bugs is expected shortly.
JLK