Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!uklirb!kirchner From: kirchner@informatik.uni-kl.de (Reinhard Kirchner) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Nixdorf Computer Message-ID: <7487@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> Date: 29 Jan 91 13:59:32 GMT References: Sender: news@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de Lines: 24 From article , by ice@wang.com (Fredrik Nyman): > zank@netcom.UUCP (Mathew Zank) writes: > >>Does anyone know any thing about the German Company called Nixdorf Computer? >>are they a hardware company, if so what kind of systems do they make? > Yes, Nixdorf is a hardware company. They work a lot with niche things, like ^^^^^^^^ definitly no. They are a complete systems company, they make whole systems including hardware, software, application software, services and everything. > point-of-sales systems and (I believe) ATMs. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This and many other things like bank terminals etc., but also small multi user systems etc. They are large enough to have had 800 million DM loss last year, and were taken over by Siemens for obvious reasons, so we now have Siemens-Nixdorf-Computers here in Germany. There is a lot to say about Nixdorfs strategy and its problems, but there are Nixdorfers on the net who are more competent to do this. Reinhard Kirchner Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany kirchner@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de