Bull SA and Thomson SA’s Christmases received a boost last week in the shape of a government hand-out totalling $583m to increase their international presence and to finance acquisitions such Bull’s takeover of Zenith Data Systems currently going through: in justification of this government largesse, Minister for French Industry Roger Fauroux said that unlike the opportunist European policies followed by the UK and Eire in information technology, France was following a policy of putting credible actors on the international stage.
