[Am-info] Microsoft to buy IBM ?

[madodel@ptdprolog.net]

In <p05111700b9214cf2914b@[128.253.200.17]>, on 06/03/02 at 12:56 PM,
   "Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com> said:

>John Poltorak <jp@eyup.org> wrote:

>>Honeywell was a EU company, but I can't see how the EU would have any
>>jurisdiction over two US companies...

>What do you mean by saying they are an EU company?  Their 
>headquarters is in the US, and as far as I can trace the corporate 
>lineage both Honeywell and AlliedSignal (which bought Honeywell) are 
>American companies:

Its been a long time, but Honeywell was bought out by Group Bull in 1987. 
As far as I can recall, Group Bull was a consortium of European companies
and governments, so perhaps that was the impetus for the EU involvement. 
They also owned Packard-Bell (is that still around?), part of NEC and
Zenith Data Systems.  Not sure if they still own any of these, or part of
these.  Seems IBM at one time owned a stake in Group Bull also.   For a
history of Group Bull see
http://perso.club-internet.fr/febcm/english/chronoa14.htm

Mark

>http://www.honeywell.com/about/page1_1.html
>http://money.cnn.com/2001/06/26/deals/ge_honeywell/

>The second article notes that Canadian regulators had approved the  deal,
>so it looks like there were at least three sets of regulators  involved
>and only two companies (in which case countries where the  company is not
>headquartered still appear to have some power).



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