Microsoft Corporation acquired Softway Systems Inc., a transaction announced in September 1999, structured as Asset acquisition.
Softway Systems Inc. operates in Windows NT interoperability (later Services for UNIX), is based in San Francisco, California, United States. Softway Systems, a privately held San Francisco company, made Interix, a suite of utilities and developer tools providing a POSIX.1-compliant UNIX subsystem on Windows NT that let developers port UNIX scripts and applications with minimal changes. Microsoft acquired the assets to strengthen future UNIX-to-Windows interoperability (technology that became Windows Services for UNIX).
Strengthen Microsoft's UNIX/Windows NT interoperability solutions with Interix's POSIX-compliant subsystem and developer tools.
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.