Oracle said that 228 million shares, or 61 percent, of total outstanding shares were tendered.

The deal was for $11 a share in cash, and the count show that 3,370,365 shares had been tendered.

About 2.4 million shares were tendered, which the Leach brothers borrowed against to trade in other stocks.

The company had originally estimated that 11.3 million shares had been tendered.

As of yesterday, some 10.9 million shares had been tendered and not withdrawn.

The company will calculate how many shares were tendered to it and buy 3.5 million shares at $325 each, a total of $1.1 billion.

But if not enough shares are tendered, the company could go on indefinitely without ever paying the dividend.

Those shares were tendered in the new deal.

As of last Friday, 1.3 million shares had been tendered.

The shares were tendered at or below $84.25 a share.