[2739] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MFS buys UUNET.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Apr 30 13:53:24 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:49:44 -0400
To: rmg@internex.net (Rob Gutierrez)
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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
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