Gossip in the Pick world is that plans to float McDonnell Douglas Information Systems International Inc on the London Stock Exchange have hit a sticky patch and that ICL has expressed interest in buying the company: such a move would greatly strengthen ICL’s hand in the UK local authority market, take it into the Pick world in a big way – with particular benefit in Australia – and provide it with additional products to offer to resellers in the US; a spokesman for McDonnell said he had heard nothing of the talk, and that as far as he was aware plans to float the company in second quarter 1990 were on track.
