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Compaq has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by American Express | Fujitsu is to close its production operations in Oregon
Compaq Computer Corporation has been awarded a five-year, multi-million dollar contract to provide technology, services, and support to American Express operations worldwide. Under the terms of the agreement, Compaq Global Services professionals will design, deliver and manage a server-based computing infrastructure for American Express. The contract calls for Compaq to deploy 25,000 thin clients -- supported by 400 Compaq ProLiant industry-standard servers -- mostly in the US, as well as in Europe, Asia, and South America.
Fujitsu Ltd. is to close its production operations at its Oregon semiconductor manufacturing facility by the end of January and liquidate the assets. The company blamed the closure on the slump in the semiconductor market and said it plans to consolidate production of flash memory at Fujitsu-AMD Semiconductor Ltd., its joint-venture manufacturing facility in Japan. About 670 employees will be affected by the closure.
Opodo, the on-line travel company backed by nine of Europe's airlines (Aer Lingus, Air France, Alitalia, Austrian Airlines, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, KLM and Lufthansa) launched its first Web site for German travellers on Friday. In addition to thousands of fares, Opodo provides a choice of 480 airlines; 54,000 hotels; 23,000 car hire locations and travel insurance.
J.D. Edwards has beaten Oracle to a STG1 million contract providing De Beers Industrial with its OneWorld XE software solution.
The Irish Internet Association announced the winners of this year's IIA Awards at a ceremony in Clontarf Castle on Friday. The IIA Net Visionary Award was won by Deirdre Veldon of Ireland.com. Other winners were Karlin Lillington (IIA Journalist Award); Michael Dwyer (IIA Innovation Award); Darerca Egan (IIA Social Inclusion Award) and Oliver Ryan (IIA e-government Award).
The 2,901 US dot.com job-cut announcements in November were 40 percent fewer than the 4,840 in October. According to the report released Friday by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, technology led all other dot.com categories in November with 1,614 announced job cuts. This sector far exceeds the second largest sector, portal, with 400 cuts. Financial businesses saw significant cuts, ranking third with 348.
E-blana, the e-government and e-finance solutions provider, has opened a new office in Armagh's Digital Corridor. The new office will merge the Craigavon and Dundalk offices and no jobs will be lost as a result of this.
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