Fujitsu Ltd’s ambitions have really been whetted by winning agreement for its acquisition of 80% of ICL, and chairman Takuma Yamamoto was indiscreet enough to tell the Wall Street Journal after the meeting in London on Monday that he would like to get closer to Siemens AG and perhaps invest in the company or in Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme GmbH: Fujitsu already quietly supplies top-end models in Siemens’ 7.500 series mainframe line as well as having the German market its VP supercomputers in Europe, and its strategy will be to wait until the inevitable dwindling of Siemens’ mainframe base and of Nixdorf’s 8870 base starts to hurt the combined company beyond endurance, and step in with a rescue investment.
