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June 8th, 1999

Enemies in Love!!
All you Borland Lovers and Microsoft Haters read and weep or rejoice based upon your views and feelings! Microsoft is partnering with Inprise and buying Inprise stock!

Arch enemies, MS and INPR today became one heck of a strange couple with the announcement of a long term cross-licensing and technology sale agreement.
Inprise will....

Support the Microsoft(r) Windows(r) 2000 operating system, including the COM+ and the Windows Distributed interNet Applications (Windows DNA) architecture. Inprise will enhance its family of Windows development tools to support this technology as well as the Windows-based DNA architecture and to conform to the Windows 2000 Application Specification.
License the latest version of the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), the standard C++ class library for developing applications for Windows. MFC will ship with Borland C++Builder.
License the latest version of the Windows platform software development kit (SDK) through the Microsoft Open Tools licensing program. Elements of the Windows platform SDK will be incorporated into Inprise's Borland family of Windows-based development tools.

In turn, Microsoft made a long-term commitment to provide Inprise with technologies related to the Windows platform and Internet technologies. Microsoft also paid Inprise $100 million for the rights to use Inprise-patented technology in Microsoft products and to settle a number of long-standing patent and technology licensing issues. The total value of the investment and payment to Inprise is $125 million.

Speak your heart out at this surprising news and read what others are saying! [click here to the read forum discussion thread]

Inprise's full news story is at http://www.inprise.com/about/press/1999/inprise_ms.html
See Inprise's stock movement at http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=INPR&d=2b
Ent mag's related news is at http://www.entmag.com/breaknews.asp?ID=886
The same story worded in a slightly more boring manner on news.com is at http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,37501,00.html
While you are there you may also want to read http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,37501,00.html

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