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Macrovision Acquires Installshield

July 2, 2004

CHICAGO - InstallShield Software Corporation, the leading provider of software-installation tools, has announced that on July 1, 2004 the company completed its sale to Macrovision Corporation for $76 million in cash.

An additional payment of up to $20 million is contingent upon post-acquisition performance.

"We are very pleased with this deal as it will take the company to the next step in the evolution mapped out by its founders," says Matthew S. Brown, a chair of the Technology Practice at Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman in Chicago and lead counsel to InstallShield for the deal. He is available to discuss the deal.

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