Fujitsu Ltd says it will move into the area of systems integration in network hardware and software and provide maintenance services for corporate networks, according to Nihon Keizai Shimbun. The Japanese computer company figures to see hardware, software and service sales of 5 trillion yen ($41.3bn) by 2000 on consolidated basis. The new systems business will be centered around Fujitsu’s Interstage distributed system environment and an integrated electronic commerce package called Commercevision. Interstage can be combined with other applications to enable multiple transaction processing over the internet. Commercevision provides core software for electronic transactions, including settlements. Fujitsu hopes to sell 15,000 of the 10 million yen ($82,500) Commercevision packages in three years.
