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Groupe Bull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (311 words) |
 | Bull was founded in 1931, as H.W. Egli - Bull, to capitalize on the punched card technology patents of Norwegian engineer Fredrik Rosing Bull (1882â1925). |
| Groupe Bull was nationalised in 1982 and was merged with most of the rest of the French computer industry. |
| Bull is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication and industry sectors. |
| History of Bull (6097 words) |
| The story of Bull is also the story of people, their ideas, their passions, and their personal commitments, all of which were too often sacrificed on the altar of political and financial intrigues, and from which one would hope to learn lessons that might today serve European interests in new technological battles. |
| On July 31, 1919, Fredrik Rosing Bull (1882-1925), an engineer at the Norwegian insurance firm Storebrand, filed for a patent on a "sorting-recording- adding machine using perforated cards." In August, 1921, the prototype was presented to the board of directors of Storebrand, which agreed to use it. |
| Bull also addressed the Anglo-Saxon markets, but did not establish subsidiaries in these markets until much later, since its competitors were on their own turf in these countries, and since exclusive-market agreements with Remington-Rand and British Tabulating Machines had been signed (these two companies were thus excluded from France). |
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