Microsoft Corporation acquired Cooper & Peters, a transaction announced in June 1997.
Cooper & Peters operates in Internet Client and Collaboration Division (Java AFC), is based in Boulder, Colorado, USA. Cooper & Peters specialized in object-oriented user-interface framework technology and components for Java and Smalltalk, with products such as Widgets, WindowBuilder and EyeOpener and expertise dating to 1989. Microsoft acquired the Boulder, Colorado firm to bring experienced developers onto its Application Foundation Classes (AFC) effort and extend those Java class libraries.
Accelerate adoption and breadth of Microsoft's Application Foundation Classes (AFC) for Java.
We want to make the largest possible impact on the industry, and Microsoft is the place to do that.Ted Peters, Principal, Cooper & Peters
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.