Re: MFS buys UUNET.

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

The press release is on the UUNET homepage at http://www.uu.net.

- paul

At 09:56 AM 4/30/96 -0700, Rob Gutierrez wrote:

> As somebody mentioned today, an AP wire story came across this morning
> that MFS is _buying_ UUNET for $2 billion.  Shareholders are looking at
> getting 1.78 shares of MFS for each of their shares.  Apparently, they
> got 62% of the voting shareholders to agree (ie: who owns a couple
> of large chunks of UUNET?).
>
> Remember that Microsoft already has their claws into UUNET for 13% :)
>
> The wire story was short on content.  Noone of the on-line newspapers
> have the story up yet.  Needless to say, UUNET's gonna be inundated
> with questions at I-World today.
>
> Speaking of which, I gotta go there right now ... :)
>
>       rob gutierrez / internex information services