Bull SA denies that Hewlett-Packard Co has won the beauty contest to become its supplier of RISC processors – which carries with it the doubtful privilege of putting up hard cash for a stake in the ravaged mainframer, insisting that it is still talking to IBM Corp too; nevertheless, Hewlett chief executive John Young met with French Prime Minister Edith Cresson on Monday, and questions of money were thought to be top of their agenda
