Control Data Ltd and NEC UK Ltd both have problems in the computer market: in Control Data’s case, it has no history in the server market that it hopes to conquer with its new MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC Unix machines, in NEC’s case, it is seen as a peripherals rather than a computer systems supplier. Accordingly, the two have joined forces to make combined bids that put together CDC’s 4000 Series servers and NEC’s line of personal computers, the larger ones of which are offered with Unix as well as MS-DOS or OS/2. The two companies will be looking for large organisation-wide contracts in government, manufacturing, scientific and legal markets, where one or the other already has a presence. Each of the partners will maintain its own equipment. It is the first such deal signed by NEC UK, but if it works, the partners may extend it worldwide..pl 63
