Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH was a Japanese and German IT vendor.

The company was founded in 1999 as a 50/50 joint venture betweenFujitsu Limited of Japan and Siemens of Germany. On April 1, 2009, the company became Fujitsu Technology Solutions as a result of Fujitsu buying out Siemens' share of the company.[1] The offerings of Fujitsu Siemens Computers extended from handheld and notebook PCs through desktops, server and storage, to enterprise-class IT infrastructure solutions and services. Fujitsu Siemens Computers had a presence in key markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, while products marketed elsewhere were sold under the Fujitsu brand, with the services division extending coverage up to 170 countries worldwide. Fujitsu Siemens Computers placed a focus on "green" computers,[2] and was considered a leader or innovator in Green IT, across a wide variety of ecological and environmental markings such as Energy Star and Nordic swan.[3]
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1 History 2 Products 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

History[edit]
On the Fujitsu side, the origins of the company could be traced back to the mid-1980s merger of the PCdivisions of Finnish Nokia and SwedishEricsson, when Ericsson PCs were known for their ergonomics and bright colors. In 1991, Nokia Data was sold to the British International Computers Limited (ICL). Later ICL was absorbed by Fujitsu. Ironically, Fujitsu was originally the data division of Fuji Electric, whose name was derived from its founders; "Fu" from the Furukawa Electric zaibatsu, and "Ji" from jiimensu, the Japanese transliteration for Siemens. 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 adapterswere 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' data and information technology branch.

In 2003, the company won the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for their use of information technology in an industry-transforming way. It was announced in November 2008 that Fujitsu would buy out Siemens' stake in the joint venture for approximately EUR450m with effect from April 1, 2009.[4] Fujitsu Siemens was the last major European computer manufacturer. The Fujitsu takeover went ahead as planned on April 1, 2009 with the company renamed as Fujitsu Technology Solutions.[5] The old FSC website is no longer available.

Products[edit]
Fujitsu Siemens Computers' products included:

Media Center

ACTIVY

Notebooks

AMILO AMILO PRO CELSIUS Mobile ESPRIMO Mobile LIFEBOOK Liteline PCD SCENIC Mobile

Desktop PC

SCALEO SCENIC ESPRIMO AMILO DESKTOP

Workstation

CELSIUS

Tablet PC

STYLISTIC

Convertible PC

LIFEBOOK

Handheld

Pocket LOOX

Industry Standard Servers

PRIMERGY PRIMERGY BladeFrame

Mission critical IA64 servers

PRIMEQUEST

UNIX system based servers

SPARC Enterprise Servers PRIMEPOWER 250, 450, 900, 1500, 2500

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 SPARC, x86 and S/390-compatible systems

VM2000 - EBCDIC-based hypervisor for S/390-compatible platform, capable of running multiple BS2000 and SINIX virtual machines

See also[edit]

List of computer system manufacturers

References[edit]
1. Jump up^ Fujitsu: "Fujitsu Technology Solutions will drive transformation for Fujitsu", April 1, 2009

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Jump up^ The Green IT Review: "Fujitsu Siemens Steams Ahead" September 24, 2008

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Jump up^ The Industry Standard: "Fujitsu Siemens goes seriously green", November 8, 2007

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Jump up^ Fujitsu: "Fujitsu to Acquire Siemens's Stake in Fujitsu Siemens Computers" November 4, 2008

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External links[edit]

Fujitsu Technology Solutions official website

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