Digital Equipment sets joint venture to market its computers in Hungary

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Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) plans a joint venture in Hungary, agreeing to sell and service its computers in that country. The venture will involve two Hungarian partners - Szamalk, a state-supervised computer-system designer; and KSzKI, a Hungarian acronym for the Research Institute for Physics. DEC's sales force in Hungary will contend with trade in unlicensed Digital clones, and a DEC spokesman says that DEC wants the Hungarian government to recognize intellectual property rights and to discourage unlicensed copying. Thus, one of the venture's main aims is to set a precedent for DEC and for other Western computer companies in regulating Eastern bloc copying of products.

United States, Europe, Joint ventures, Eastern Europe, Hungary, International relations, United States foreign relations, Digital Equipment Corp., DEC, Joint Venture, International, Europe, Eastern, Digital Equipment (Hungary) Ltd.

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'New' IBM tests blueprint in Europe, and initial results are encouraging

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IBM's big European operations, based in Paris, have been the parent company's laboratory for a 'new IBM.' It was in Europe that IBM first tried out the idea of drastically shrinking central management and chopping the company into smaller, semi-independent business units, each with its own specialty, employee incentives and profit plan. While it is too early to judge the success of the European operation's efforts, they served as the blueprint for IBM's world-wide reorganization, launched in 1991. If IBM succeeds, this new organization method model might well become the most fashionable way to structure a multinational corporation.

Prepackaged software, International Business Machines Corp., International business enterprises, Multinational corporations, Reorganization, Decentralization, Multinational Corporation, IBM France

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Soviets order Control Data computers amid signs of easing of export curbs

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Control Data Corp will fill a $32 million order from nuclear power researchers in the USSR, a test of whether the US and the USSR can cooperate to meet high-technology needs. The Soviets say that Control Data's mainframe computers will be used to design safer nuclear reactors, but the computers could also have military applications. The computers are the most powerful ever shipped to the USSR. Soviet mainframes and minicomputers are scarce, fault-prone, and hindered by outdated software. Other US-USSR contracts, including the US West Inc plan to lay fiber-optic cable across the USSR, hinge upon the success of this contract.

International trade, Economic policy, Nuclear industry, Nuclear energy, Soviet Union, Commerce, Control Data Corp., CDA

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