December 05, 2000, 12:24 PM — Longtime rivals Microsoft Corp. and Inprise Corp. today announced a set of
technology and licensing agreements that will be the basis for a long-term alliance
between the two companies.
The announcement includes Microsoft buying $25 million of Inprise preferred stock,
but the companies pegged the value of the entire partnership for the troubled
development tools vendor at $125 million.
Enmity between the duo dates back to when Inprise, then known as Borland
International Inc., had a wider range of products that often put it in direct
competition with Microsoft.
As part of the Microsoft-Inprise partnership, Inprise has agreed to do the
following:
- Support the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system, including the COM+ and
the Windows Distributed interNet Applications architecture.
standard C++ class library for developing applications for Windows. MFC will ship with
Borland C++Builder.
through the Microsoft Open Tools licensing program. Elements of the Windows platform
development kit will be incorporated into Inprise's Borland family of Windows-based
development tools.
