According to the unofficial FoxPro History site (http://www.foxprohistory.org), the "merger" cost MS $173M.

Rick

>Hi Jozef,
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>I agree that MS do not appear to be bothered whether VFP sells more units or not, hence the marketing to existing VFP users rather than trying to attract new users.
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>If that is the case and MS want to focus on .NET then fair enough. Maybe someone should put a bid into MS to buy back VFP from them. Incidentally, anyone know what the original purchase price was from Fox Software ?
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>Regards,
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>Aaron