Fujitsu Siemens Computers

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Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Type	Joint venture
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Maarssen, Netherlands
Industry	Computer
Products	Desktops, notebooks, pda, industry standard servers, unix/solaris servers, mainframes, storage
Employees	about 6,800 ^[1]
Website	www.fujitsu-siemens.com

Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a Japanese and German IT vendor, selling consumer and business computing products in the markets of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (products marketed elsewhere are sold under the Fujitsu brand). The company is a 50/50 joint venture between Fujitsu Limited of Japan and Siemens AG of Germany and was founded in 1999.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers products range from mainframes and Unix servers to notebooks, desktop PCs, handhelds and peripherals such as displays, keyboards and mice.

Fujitsu Siemens specialise on "Green" computers, making sure the whole range confirms or exceeds requirements for a wide variety of ecological and environmental markings.

Brands include:

Notebooks
- Amilo
- Lifebook
- CELSIUS H
Desktop PC
- SCALEO
- SCENIC
- ESPRIMO
Tablet PC
- STYLISTIC
PDAs
- Pocket LOOX
S/390-compatible Mainframes
- S- series, SX- series
Flat panel displays
- Myrica
  - Liquid crystal display televisions
  - Plasma display televisions
- SCALEOVIEW
  - Liquid crystal display computer monitors
- SCENICVIEW
  - Liquid crystal display computer monitors
Operating systems
- SINIX - Unix variant, later renamed Reliant UNIX, available for RISC and S/390-compatible platforms
- BS2000 - EBCDIC-based operating system for S/390-compatible systems
- VM2000 - EBCDIC-based hypervisor for S/390-compatible platform, capable of running multiple BS2000 and SINIX virtual machines

1 History
2 Notes and references
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

The origins of the company can be traced back to the merger of the PC-divisions of the Finnish Nokia and the Swedish Ericsson in the mid 1980s. In 1991 Nokia Data was sold to the British International Computers Ltd (ICL). Later ICL merged with Fujitsu.

Ericsson PCs were known in the 1980s for their ergonomics and bright colours.

The Nokia MikroMikko line of compact desktop computers continued to be produced at the Kilo factories in Espoo, Finland. Components, including motherboards and Ethernet network adapters were manufactured locally, until production was moved to Taiwan. Internationally the MikroMikko line was marketed by Fujitsu as the ErgoPro.

The German half of the company, Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme, was the result of the merger of Nixdorf Computer with Siemens.

In 2003, the company won the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for their use of information technology in an industry-transforming way.