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Conference tnpubs::xwell

Title:	Honeywell (Bull) Alumni

Moderator:	TNPUBS::JONG

Created:	Tue Mar 31 1987
Last Modified:	Thu Apr 27 1995
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	57
Total number of notes:	213

57.0. "Wang buys Bull (Does anyone still look at this conference?)" by CAPN::WOOD () Mon Mar 06 1995 12:38

Recently the Boston Globe reported that "Wang Labs Inc said it has signed 
a definitive accord to buy much of the service and system-integration 
businesses of Paris-based Cie. des Mechines Bull ...". 

Do the service and system integration businesses make up the bulk of 
the current Bull operations? I wonder if there are any employees of the
1980s left?

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57.1 Yup, I check in occasionally MSE1::MAHANY Dianne Mahany Thu Apr 27 1995 20:08 18

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57.1	Yup, I check in occasionally	MSE1::MAHANY	Dianne Mahany	`Thu Apr 27 1995 20:08`	18
	Hi. I occasionally check the conference to see if there's anything new. I was surprised to see this. I don't know about the percentage of operations represented by the Wang buy, but I do know that there are some employees from the 1980s and well before left in Billerica (they sold it and leased back some office space)--who are there to get ready to close the doors. I'm in touch with Glenn Ryan, who did leave Bull when Bull sold the ISO9000 consulting business he's in to a small company (he went with it), and Ken Adam, who is still with Bull but not for long. These fellows have been there since the late '60s (I started with Honeywell in 1969 and they were both there). I wonder how many of us ex-Honeywell/Bull people have survived at Digital? I've made it through nearly 8 years and am really surprised... Dianne

    Hi.  I occasionally check the conference to see if there's anything
    new.  I was surprised to see this.
    
    I don't know about the percentage of operations represented by the Wang
    buy, but I do know that there are some employees from the 1980s and
    well before left in Billerica (they sold it and leased back some office
    space)--who are there to get ready to close the doors.  I'm in touch
    with Glenn Ryan, who did leave Bull when Bull sold the ISO9000
    consulting business he's in to a small company (he went with it), and
    Ken Adam, who is still with Bull but not for long.  These fellows have
    been there since the late '60s (I started with Honeywell in 1969 and
    they were both there).
    
    I wonder how many of us ex-Honeywell/Bull people have survived at
    Digital?  I've made it through nearly 8 years and am really
    surprised...
    
    Dianne