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Visio to be bought by Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday September 15, 1999 @02:07AM from the lotsa-stock-swap dept.

terrified wrote to to us with the official word that Visio has been purchased by Microsoft. Visio makes some incredible network diagramming and technical drawing software and is used extensively worldwide. The deal was a 1.3$US billion dollar stock swap between the two companies.

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Re:Is this a bad thing? by Analog · 1999-09-14 17:27 · Score: 5

Okay, so probably there will never come a Linux port of this software now. Are there any alternatives?
Dia is a program that is quite similar. It doesn't have all the functionality of Visio (yet), but it's early days. Still, I've heard several people swear by it. Check it out.