ICL Plc, Siemens AG and Compagnie des Machines Bull SA gathered in Brussels yesterday to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the opening of their European Computer Industry Research Centre in Munich, which is entirely funded by the three owners and according to ICL could serve as a model for other joint action to build a European information superhighway: The fact that ICL has actually been able to market and deliver a wide range of goods and services which contain technology developed jointly at the centre proves to me that we have indeed succeeded in building an ideas factory, Richard Livesey-Haworth, group executive director for ICL, said – ICL developed its Goldrush parallel processing system from results of a European Union-funded research project in which the centre was a major partner, while Bull used research results to develop its Validity deductive database.
