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For the record 30 November
Friday, November 30 2001
by Paula Mythen


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.