Fujitsu
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| Type | Public (TYO: 6702) |
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| Founded | 1900 |
| Headquarters | Minato,Tokyo, Japan |
| Key people | Yahya Rayes, Mohamed Ghasem, CEO |
| Industry | Computer hardware, Computer software |
| Products | software & services, Consulting,computing & communications platforms, electronic devices |
| Revenue | ▲$53.3 billion USD (year ending 31 March 2009) |
| Employees | 400,000 (31 March 2009) |
| Website | www.fujitsu.com |
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Fujitsu (富士通株式会社 Fujitsū Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese company specializing in semiconductors, air conditioners, computers (supercomputers, personal computers, servers), telecommunications, and services. It is headquartered in the Shiodome City Center complex in Minato, Tokyo.[1]
Fujitsu employs around 400,000 people and has 500 subsidiary companies. Internationally, Fujitsu considers IBM to be its main competitor. Its historic domestic rival is NEC.
The slogan "The possibilities are infinite" can be found below the company's logo on major advertisements and ties up with the small logo above the letters J and I of the word Fujitsu. This smaller logo, (∞), represents the symbol for infinity.
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[edit] History
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[2] The company was established on June 20, 1935 under the name Fuji Tsūshinki Seizō (富士通信機製造, Fuji Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing), a spinoff of the Fuji Electric Company, this in turn being a joint venture between the Furukawa Electric Company and German conglomerate Siemens founded in 1923. Despite its connections to the Furukawa zaibatsu, Fujitsu escaped the Allied occupation of Japan mostly unscathed.
In 1954 Fujitsu manufactured Japan's first computer, the FACOM 100, and in 1961 the transistorized FACOM 222. In 1967, the company's name was officially changed to the contraction Fujitsū (富士通).
In 1955, Fujitsu founded Kawasaki Frontale (川崎フロンターレ, Kawasaki Furontāre) as a Fujitsu soccer club. Kawasaki Frontale has now been a J. League football club since 1999.
In 1971 Fujitsu signed an OEM agreement with the Canadian company, Consolidated Computers Ltd (later Consolidated Computer Inc.) to distribute CCL's world leading data entry product, Key-Edit. Fujitsu joined both ICL who earlier began marketing Key-Edit in the British Commonwealth of countries as well as in both western and eastern Europe; and CCL's direct marketing staff in Canada, USA, London (UK) and Frankfurt. Mers Kutt, inventor of Key-Edit and founder of CCL, was the common thread that led to Fujitsu’s later association with ICL and Gene Amdahl.
Mers crossed paths with Gene when Mers chaired the CIPS Computing Conference in Canada in 1967. Mers invited Gene to be the Technical Keynote Speaker on a slate with Bobby Kennedy as the Guest Speaker at the Gala Banquet (before Bobby decided to run for President), and Elmer Engstrom, RCA’s CEO and Chair. Gene and Mers became friends and colleagues and later Gene in 1970/71 sent Mers a proposal wherein he would leave IBM and set up a separate division of CCL to build a state of the art mainframe computer.
Bobby Kennedy had to pass on Mers’ invitation because he decided to enter the Presidential race. When Mers received the letter from Kennedy it seemed ill-omened to Mers at the time. Tragically, the night he was murdered was the night Bobby Kennedy would have spoken at the CIPS Conference.
Gene Amdahl’s proposal was reportedly vetoed as too risky by Prime Minister Trudeau via Anthony Hampson. Consistent reports from Bay Street, Canada’s Wall Street, and a journalist of the Montreal Star, a jealous Anthony Hampson was a psychotic person that was out to clip Mers’ wings in his rapid rise in fame from a poor immigrant family. He made no effort to hide his intentions. Hampson apparently felt the Hampson family’s position as the 3rd richest family in Canada was being threatened. He was Trudeau’s friend and fellow resident of the exclusive Westmount district of Montreal and Trudeau had appointed him to Chair a government group (GAAB)that virtually controlled CCL via debt instruments and participation on the CCL Board. Such conclusions were later substantiated when Hampson was able to squeeze Mers and his first employee, key executive and close friend, Donald Pamenter, out of the company late in 1971. History later proved that he did it at the absolute peak of CCL’s/CCI’s entire existence from 1965 to circa 1981. Further he received over $100M in funds that was squandered while Mers never received a cent from the government before the company became #1 in the field in data entry.
Mers Kutt immediately went on in December 1971 and invented the personal computer and founded Micro Computer Machines and released MCM/70, the world’s first PC model in 1973. Don went on and had a successful career in consulting with a giant consulting firm in the US.
In 1990 Fujitsu took over International Computers Limited (ICL) in the UK, ultimately becoming Fujitsu Services in 2002. Fujitsu Services' business is helping its customers realize the value of information technology through the application of consulting, systems integration and managed service contracts. It serves customers in the private and public sectors across Europe including retail, financial services and Government.
In July, 1991 ICL (Fujitsu) acquired more than half of the Russian company KME-CS (Kazan Manufacturing Enterprise of Computer Systems, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia). The agreement was signed between Peter Bonfield (President of ICL) and Mintimer Shaimiev (President of the Tatarstan Republic).
From February 1989 until the Summer of 1997 Fujitsu built the FM Towns PC variant. It started as a proprietary PC variant intended for multimedia applications and computer games, but later became more compatible with regular PCs. In 1993, the FM Towns Marty was released, a gaming console compatible with the FM Towns games.
Amdahl became a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu in 1997 and with it the DMR consulting group, based in Canada.
In 1998 Fujitsu was headquartered in Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture and maintained an office in Chiyoda, Tokyo.[3]
The active partnership with Siemens AG was revived in 1999 in the form of Fujitsu Siemens Computers, which became one of Europe's largest IT hardware suppliers, and was owned 50/50 by Fujitsu and Siemens. However, on April 1, 2009 Fujitsu bought out Siemens' stake in the Fujitsu Siemens Computers joint venture for approximately EUR450m.[4] Fujitsu Siemens Computers became Fujitsu Technology Solutions from this date.[5]
Shiodome City Center, which became Fujitsu's headquarters, opened in 2003.[6]
Plasma displays In 1992, Fujitsu introduced the world's first 21-inch full-color display. It was a hybrid, based upon the plasma display created at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NHK STRL, achieving superior brightness. Many people will be familiar with Fujitsu through such consumer products - they are sold through a subsidiary joint venture company Fujitsu General, along with air conditioners.
On March 2, 2004, Fujitsu Computer Products of America lost a class action lawsuit over hard disk drives with defective chips and firmware.Fujitsu also signed a partner agreement with Al-Manteq Co (which are distributers of Fujitsu products in Libya. Libya being one of the most rapidly increasing economies in the world.
In October 2004, Fujitsu's Australian subsidiary bought the Australian arm of Atos Origin, a systems implementation company specializing in SAP.
On April 1, 2006, Fujitsu Software Corporation merged with Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation.
In October 2007 Fujitsu launched its new $10 Million facility in Noida.
In October 2007 Fujitsu's Australia & New Zealand subsidiary bought Infinity Solutions Ltd, a New Zealand IT hardware, services and consultancy company.
In January 2009 Fujitsu reached an agreement to sell its HDD business to Toshiba.[7] Transfer of the business is supposed to conclude at the end of the fiscal 1st quarter of 2009.[8]
[edit] Product lines
Computing Products Division[9]
- Lifebook notebook computers.
- Stylistic Tablet PC's
- Mobile Phones.
- Tablet personal computers, pen based computers. With rotating screen and plastic pen.
- Scanners - for various purposes of copying print in to digital files.
- Ethernet switches
- KVM switches
- Servers SPARC Enterprise, PRIMEPOWER, PRIMEQUEST, PRIMERGY high end UNIX, Linux Windows products.
- ETERNUS storage for enterprise environments.
- Hard drives for notebook computers, work stations and enterprise servers.
- Hard drives for notebook computers with Full Disk Encryption (FDE)[10][11]
- Mag EraSURE degaussers for disposal of magnetic computing media.
- Point-Of-Sale Applications
[edit] In popular culture
In the movie Back to the Future Part II the writers thought that by 2015 most companies would be Japanese-owned. In 2015, Marty's employer is Fujitsu, and he is fired by company owner Ito Fujitsu, who the characters had nicknamed "The Jits". When the film was shown in Japan, audiences did not understand the joke, since Fujitsu is not a person's name, it is only a company name similar to the American company General Motors so this was similar to Marty being fired by "Mr. General Motors."[12]
In the video game Street Fighter Alpha 2, Rolento's stage features a large billboard of a woman in a green bikini holding the keyboard and monitor of a Fujitsu computer.
In the movie Scary Movie 4 there is dialogue between Cindy and the ghost boy. The parody has them speaking in Japanese, but in reality they are just using Japanese brand names, and other popular Japanese terms. The scene ends with Cindy yelling "Fujitsu" while telling the ghost boy to "wait."[13]
On January 21, 2009 the web comic xkcd mentioned Fujitsu laptops, specifically the Q-series, as a former Fujitsu executive is welcomed into hell by the devil.
[edit] Australian spokesman
The key media figurehead for Fujitsu General in Australia is Mark Taylor, a now-retired former captain for the Australian Test Cricketing Side. He has done several advertisements for Fujitsu and has advertised such deals as Fujitsu Free Money and such air conditioning units as the Fujitsu Inverter System. Mark Taylor has been advertising Fujitsu General's products for a few years now and has become the Australian icon of the Company.[14]
[edit] See also
- Fujitsu Consulting
- Fujitsu Consulting India Limited
- Fujitsu Services
- Kawasaki Frontale
- Fujitsu Ladies
- FM Towns
- Fujitsu Micro 16s
- List of Fujitsu products
- Fujitsu Ten
- NIFTY Corporation
- List of Computer System Manufacturers
- Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series
[edit] References
- ^ "Japan All Contacts." Fujitsu. Retrieved on May 19, 2009.
- ^ Official Fuijtsu history
- ^ "Company Profile." Fujitsu. January 19, 1998. Retrieved on May 19, 2009.
- ^ http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2008/20081104-01.html
- ^ http://ts.fujitsu.com/ps2/press/read/news_details.aspx?id=3450
- ^ "Shiodome City Center." Nihon Sekkei. Retrieved on May 19, 2009.
- ^ Reuters (2009-01-14). Toshiba and Fujitsu reach HDD deal: Nikkei. Press release. http://www.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUSTRE50D5LN20090114. Retrieved on 2009-01-14.
- ^ Xbitlabs (2009-02-17). Toshiba Agrees to Acquire Fujitsu’s Hard Drive Business.. Press release. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20090217060147_Toshiba_Agrees_to_Acquire_Fujitsu_s_Hard_Drive_Business.html. Retrieved on 2009-02-17.
- ^ List of major computer products
- ^ http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2009/20090128-01.html Fujitsu Develops HDD Security Technology based on Opal SSC Standards
- ^ http://www.secude.com Fujitsu Partners with SECUDE to make Premier Full Disk Encryption Technology
- ^ Commentary about the making of the film is included on the 3 DVD set Back to the Future I, II, III.
- ^ Article about Scary Movie 4
- ^ Case Study: Promotion through personality and partnerships, 2005, Access date: 24 September 2007. Australian V8 Supercar drivers Jason Bright and Alan Gurr have also done some marketing/promotional work for Fujitsu and with Taylor due to his Fujitsu sponsored supercars
[http://www.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUSTRE50D5LN20090114 CEO BILALL TAGHDI
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