The Czech systems intergration firm APP Group has won a $4m contract to automate chemical company Synthesia, according to the Czech News Agency. APP Systems, the company’s systems integration subsidiary, is understood to have tendered hardware from Compagnie des Machines Bull SA along with an Oracle relational database and Oracle Financials. The win is a rare victory for Bull which has had few successes in eastern Europe outside the Asynchronous Transfer Mode sector, aside from its long-standing involvement in the troubled automation of Poland’s tax system (CI No 2,232).
