Groupe Bull

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Bull's latest logo, introduced in November 2005.

Groupe Bull (also known as Bull Computer or simply Bull) is a French computer company based in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, outside Paris. The company has also been known at various times as Bull General Electric, Honeywell Bull, CII Honeywell Bull, and Bull HN. Bull was founded in 1931, as H.W. Egli - Bull, to capitalize on the punched card technology patents of Norwegian engineer Fredrik Rosing Bull (1882–1925). After a reorganization in 1933, with new owners coming in, the name was changed to Compagnie des Machines Bull.

The company has undergone many takeovers and mergers since its formation. In particular, it has had various ownership relations with General Electric, Honeywell, and NEC from the 1960s to the 1980s, and Motorola, Debeka, and France Télécom more recently. It acquired Honeywell Information Systems in the late 1980s, and later also had a share of Zenith Data Systems and Packard Bell. Groupe Bull was nationalised in 1982 and was merged with most of the rest of the French computer industry. In 1994 the company was re-privatised.

Using the slogan "Architect of an Open World", Bull today claims to be an information technology company dedicated to helping corporations and public sector bodies develop open and secure information systems to sustain their business strategies. The premier European-based global IT supplier, Bull has a worldwide presence in more than 100 countries, and is particularly active in the defense, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, public and telecommunication sectors.

A 1990 Honeywell-Bull DPS 7 mainframe

Recent major products of the company are the scalable Bull NovaScale family of Itanium 2-based servers for High Performance Computing and commercial applications and the high-availability Bull Escala family of IBM Power5-architecture servers. Bull also has a Bull DPS-9000 mainframe computer range (catering to long-time customers with Bull computer installations) and a blade server line. All new products are available with a distribution of Linux as an option.

Bull also offers services, including IT consulting (from IT architecture and ‘urbanization’ to project management support), IT integration and IT operations.

The name

The company is named after its original Norwegian founder, whose name rhymes with the fairly innocuous French word bulle (bubble), but also rhymes (in English) with the much less innocuous English word bull. Overcoming the potential negative connotations of this linguistic coincidence for advertising and marketing campaigns in English has been a continuing challenge for the company.

External links

Groupe Bull corporate website
Bull's history – By the Fédération des Equipes Bull (Federation of Bull teams); also includes descriptions of Bull's products over the years

Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"

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Computers take numerous physical forms. The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century (around 1940 - 1941), although the computer concept and various machines
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A company is a form of business organization.

Types

There are various types of company that can be formed in different jurisdictions, but the most common forms of company are:

a company limited by shares.

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Commune of
Les Clayes-sous-Bois

Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs

Administration
Country France
Arrondissement Versailles
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Ville de Paris

City flag City coat of arms

Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur
(Latin: "Tossed by the waves, she does not sink")

The Eiffel Tower in Paris, as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro.
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
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Year 1931 (MCMXXXI
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punch card or punched card (or punchcard or Hollerith card or IBM card), is a piece of stiff paper that contains digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions.
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Motto

Royal: Alt for Norge ("Everything for Norway")
1814 Eidsvoll oath: Enige og tro til Dovre faller
("United and faithful until the mountains of Dovre crumble")

Anthem
Ja, vi elsker

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Norwegian engineer Fredrik Rosing Bull (1882–1925) was the inventor/designer of improved punched card machines, based on which resulting patents French multinational computer corporation Groupe Bull was founded in 1931.
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1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s
1930 1931 1932 - 1933 - 1934 1935 1936

Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII
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mergers and acquisitions (abbreviated M&A) refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling and combining of different companies that can aid, finance, or help a growing company in a given industry grow rapidly
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General Electric Co.

Public (NYSE: GE )
Founded 1878 in Menlo Park, New Jersey
Founder Thomas Alva Edison
Headquarters Fairfield, Connecticut,^[1] USA

Key people Jeff Immelt, Chairman & CEO
Keith Sherin, Vice Chairman, CFO
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Honeywell International, Inc.

Public
Founded 1906, 1999 by merger with AlliedSignal
Headquarters Morristown, New Jersey

Products Aerospace & Defense , Automation & Control Solutions , Specialty Materials
Revenue $31.4 billion USD (2006)
Net income $ 2.
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NEC Corporation

Corporation TYO: 6701 , NASDAQ: NIPNY
Founded Tokyo, Japan (1899)
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan

Key people Hajime Sasaki, Chairman of the Board; Akinobu Kanasugi, Vice Chairman of the Board; Kaoru Yano, President
Industry Electronics
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Motorola Inc.

Public (NYSE: MOT )
Founded 1928
Headquarters Schaumburg, Illinois, USA

Key people Edward Zander, CEO & Chairman
Industry Telecommunications
Products Embedded systems
Microprocessors
Mobile phones
Two-Way radios
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France Télécom

Public (Euronext: FTE , NYSE: FTE )
Founded 1988 (spun off from governmental control)
Headquarters Paris, France

Key people Didier Lombard, Chairman & CEO
Industry Telecommunications
Products Communication services
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Zenith Data Systems (ZDS) was a division of Zenith founded in 1979 after Zenith acquired Heathkit, who had, at that time, recently entered the personal computer market. Zenith sold personal computers under both the Heath/Zenith and Zenith Data Systems names.
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Two different consumer electronics companies have used the Packard Bell name.

The first was an American radio manufacturer founded in 1926,^[1]^[2]
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Nationalization, also spelled nationalisation, is the act by which a nation takes possession of assets without requiring the owner's consent, with or without payment of compensation. Nationalization without compensation is a case of expropriation.
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1979 1980 1981 - 1982 - 1983 1984 1985

Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII
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Privatization/Privatisation (alternately "denationalization/denationalisation" or "disinvestment") is the transfer of ownership from the public sector (government) to the private sector (business).
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Itanium 2
Central processing unit

Itanium 2 logo
Produced: From mid 2002 to present
Manufacturer: Intel
CPU Speeds: 733 MHz to 1.
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Server Computer

The inside/front of a server computer

Connects to:

Internet via one of

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Power Architecture CPU architecture
This box: •

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Mainframes (often colloquially referred to as Big Iron) are computers used mainly by large organizations for critical applications, typically bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, ERP, and financial transaction processing.
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