MFS buys UUNET.

Wed May 1 08:56:13 UTC 1996

On Tue, 30 Apr 1996 09:56:38 -0700 (PDT)  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% :)
>
According to the Internet Millionaire's Home Page:
http://www.pulver.com/million/

 Rick Adams, Chairman         UUNT           4,875,000        $279,703,125
 Microsoft                    UUNT           4,164,000        $238,909,500
 Menlo Ventures, VC           UUNT           3,229,698        $185,303,922 
 New Enterprise, VC           UUNT           3,229,698        $185,303,922
 Accel, VC                    UUNT           3,210,320        $184,192,110
 New Enterprise/Barris, VC    UUNT           3,229,698        $185,303,922
 Menlo Ventures/Jarve, VC     UUNT           3,229,698        $185,303,922 
 Accel/Patterson, VC          UUNT           3,210,320        $184,192,110 
 John Sidgmore, Pres & CEO    UUNT           1,244,100         $71,380,237

Ain't infotechnology fun :-)

>
>	rob gutierrez / internex information services
>

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