Macrovision has announced it has signed a agreement to acquire the assets and operations of privately-held InstallShield Software Corporation for a mere $76 million in a CASH transaction.
An additional payment of up to $20 million is contingent upon post-acquisition performance.

InstallShield is the leading provider of software installation tools, and has innovative solutions in deployment and update services. Off course you all know this because just about every time we install one of our PC games this is the installation program that does all of the work for us.

This acquisition enables Macrovision to expand its product portfolio in the Software Value Management category and to reach InstallShield’s large software developer customer base.
Macrovision also expects to benefit from InstallShield’s market leadership and strong brand equity.

The acquisition of InstallShield is expected to close in the third quarter of 2004.
Upon closing of the acquisition, InstallShield Software Corporation will become part of Macrovision’s Software Technologies Group.

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