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From: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: BULLEish on Zenith Data Systems
Keywords: Groupe Bulle, ZDS, Zenith
Message-ID: <3938@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 89 16:39:39 GMT
Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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Sorry if I missed the discussion on this, but I just got back from a week
in Illinois (596 articles in comp.sys.ibm.pc...read?  Right.) and had
to catch-up on a lot of assuredly fine postings.  But while I was there,
the big news was the sale of Zenith Data Systems to Groupe Bulle, a
French (?) computer company that I believe owns Honeywell also.

So, is there any further information?  Are they still to be called ZDS?
Will there still be a Zenith nameplate, or will the new line be
called BULLEstations?  What is/will be the reaction of US federal government
purchasing agents, who have gone for ZDS products in a big way during
the past few years?  And why would Zenith Electronics sell off the only
cash cow they have (ZDS made pretty good bucks over the years) and keep the
TV division, which, as I understand it, has been losing money in recent
years?  PLEASE don't tell me Sony is about to buy *them* also! :) I hope

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