McDonnell Douglas Corp has expanded its third party maintenance services, operated out of Irvine, California to cover DEC VAX 8000 series, MicroVAX 3000s and VAXstation 2000. The UK benefits a little from problems at Distributed Logic Corp, Anaheim, California, which has reorganised its operating groups so that its organisation more closely parallels its strategic market emphasis, whatever that may mean – what it does mean is a 10% reduction in the worldwide workforce in an effort to bring operating costs in line with current business levels: the company makes OEM peripheral and communications control products for DEC minis, and data storage and and integrated computer system products for end users, and is moving manufacture of its more mature PDP-11 systems products to the UK where they will be closer to our largest market for those systems.