Bull HN UK has been awarded a licence by 3Com UK to manufacture 25,000 3Stations/2E so that it can meet the requirements of four-year UKP50m contract with the Inland Revenue. The diskless Ethernet workstations are being manufactured at Bull’s manufacturing plant in Newhouse, Lanarkshire, and installed in district tax offices as part of the distributed computerisation strategy called IRON – Inland Revenue Terminal of the Nineties. Bull, which is 3Com’s largest reseller, is also supplying software, services and over 900 Unix-based servers to manage the network. Under the terms of the agreement, Bull has exclusive rights to manufacture 3Station/2Es in the UK, and the Inland Revenue is will use them to access its ICL mainframe-based COP/CODA applications which deal with Pay-As-You-Earn assessments.
