UK supplier Rapid Recall Ltd, now owned by Metrologie SA in Paris, has set up a separate division for its new business of selling Hewlett-Packard’s Unix-based Vectra PC systems in the UK. Rapid Premiere, with 24 staff, is to operate from offices in Nantwich, Cheshire; High Wickham, Buckinghamshire; and London. Starting out with UKP500,000 worth of business a month, the division, headed by Marlene Yeoman from Rapid Recall, expects to be doing UKP1m a month by next June. The plan is to sell not only hardware, but all kinds of support services, software, training and consultancy, drawing on the resources at Hewlett and Rapid Recall where required. Rapid Premiere will be targetting systems in the 10- to 30-user bracket, and says that Hewlett’s new EISA bus 80486 Vectra machine will spearhead the effort.
