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To: i-node who wrote (3447)	11/21/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: Bipin Prasad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

To date, no one (I repeat NO ONE) makes tools of the caliber Borland (now Inprise) does. Period. Absolutely! InSook Prasad

To: i-node who wrote (3447)	11/21/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: Jerry Whlan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

but my recollection is that MSFT took no stake in INPR There were two parts to the deal, a good chunk of change for the patent rights and another similar chunk of change for a large number of special non-voting shares (5M?). So yes, Microsoft does own a piece of Inprise, not a huge piece but not insignificant either. However, all the reports from Inprise at the time were careful to say that Microsoft had gained no control over Inprise's direction, that they had nothing to say about what markets (i.e. Linux) Inprise could move into.