Meiko Scientific Ltd has had to change its nationality to make its mark in the US, and the Bristol-born company now sits under a US corporation, Meiko World Inc, which sits atop the Meiko Scientific Corp operating company in Waltham, Massachusetts and the research and development arm in Bristol, here; the company remains employee-owned and free of venture capital, funded by cash flow from sales; it has technology partnerships with SunSoft Inc, Oracle Corp, Fujitsu Ltd and ICL Plc, and claims the largest worldwide installed base of scalable, parallel computer systems, with customers including British Aerospace Plc, General Electric Co Inc, Glaxo Plc, Hewlett-Packard Co, Hitachi Ltd, ICI Plc, Lloyds of London, National Westminster Bank Plc, Royal Dutch Shell, Toyota Motor Corp and Lawrence Livermore.