Bull (computer manufacturer)
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| legal form | SA |
| ISIN | FR0000052607 |
| founding | 1931 |
| Seat |
Les Clayes-sous-Bois France
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| management | Philippe Vannier (Chairman & CEO) |
| Number of employees | 8600 |
| sales | 1.26 billion euros |
| Branch | Information technology |
| Website | www.bull.com |
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The Bull SA is a French computer maker based in Les Clayes-sous-Bois , near Paris, and is now part of IT service provider Atos .
Company history
- Bull was founded in Paris in 1931 as HW Egli Bull to market the patents of the Norwegian inventor Fredrik Rosing Bull .
- In 1933, HW Egli Bull was renamed Compagnie des Machines Bull (CMB) .
- Initially the company manufactured printers and punch card punches, and from 1951 also computers .
- In 1960 the German branch was founded under the name Bull Deutschland Lochkarten GmbH in Cologne.
- From 1964 to 1970: Merger with General Electric under the name Bull-General Electric .
- From 1970 to 1975: Merger with Honeywell under the name Honeywell-Bull .
- From 1975 to 1982: Merger with CII under the name CII - Honeywell-Bull .
- In the 1970s, the Ada 95 ( ISO / IEC 8652 ) programming language was designed by Jean Ichbiah at Bull Computer.
- In 1983 Bull took over the company R2E , the manufacturer of the Micral .
- In 1982 the company was nationalized under the name Groupe Bull and merged with other French computer manufacturers at the time, but privatized again in 1994.
- In 1989 Zenith Data Systems was acquired, but sold again in 1997.
- In 2000, the chip card division was sold to Schlumberger NV , which in turn sold it as Axalto to GemPlus, from which Gemalto emerged.
- October 2008: Takeover of science + computing ag , a German company with in-depth expertise in the integration of HPC solutions.
- May 2014: Bull is taken over by Atos , a French IT outsourcing service provider.
- April 2015: The company's logo turns blue to match the Atos corporate color . The domains Bull.de and Bull.com are redirected to Atos servers.
European and global provider
Honeywell Bull DPS 7 mainframe computer
Honeywell Bull hard drive
Today Bull is represented in over 50 countries as the main European provider of open information systems and is therefore an important European representative in information technology. The company is also a specialist in the field of mainframes, such as the TERA-10.
In the top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers published on June 23, 2009 at the international supercomputer conference ISC2009, the Juropa system - made up of Bull Novascale and Sun Blades - is listed among the top 10.
Product lines
server
- GCOS mainframes: DPS 7000 and DPS 9000 for Bull's proprietary operating system GCOS (GCOS-7 and GCOS-8) (with CMOS ASICs )
- AIX Server: Escala based on IBM's Power processor (are relabeled pSeries servers from IBM). However, AIX is being developed by a group of up to 50 people from Bull. The Power6-based pSeries Entry / Midrange systems were also from Bull.
- Intel Server: novascale bullion and NovaScale Universal based on Intel Xeon . The novascale bullion supports up to 160 Intel Xeon processor cores and up to 2 terabytes of RAM and is used in large consolidation projects with VMware .
Storage
- Storage solutions: OEM / Reseller of EMC² , SUN-StorageTek, NetworkAppliance, Brocade, Symantec, CommVault; in addition, specific storage solutions under the brand name Bull StoreWay
HPC
- Cluster based on NovaScale with GPGPUs and the Bull Advanced Server for Xeon software suite for HPC or the Microsoft® Windows® HPC Server 2008
Partnerships
- Server: IBM , Intel , NEC
- Operating systems: Microsoft , Citrix , VMware , Novell (Suse), Red Hat
- Storage: EMC² , NEC , NetApp
- Open source and service-oriented architectures: Apache
- Business Intelligence and ERP: Microsoft , Oracle , SAP
- Security: Symantec
- Energy efficiency check: Cooperation with TÜV Rheinland for more environmentally friendly data centers
Shareholders
| Surname | proportion of |
|---|---|
| Crescendo Industries | 20.00% |
| France Telecom | 8.07% |
| Fund Stratégique d'investissement | 5.05% |
| Groupama Asset Management | 3.03% |
| Pothar Investments SA | 3.02% |
| KBL Richelieu Gestion | 2.49% |
| NEC | 2.44% |
| Tocqueville Finance SA | 2.37% |
| Sycomore Asset Management | 2.13% |
| own shares | 0.33% |
| Employee | 0.71% |
| Free float | 50.35% |
As of October 2011
Web links
- Official website Bull
- Computerwoche 42/1986: The winding paths of a European computer company
- History of the Bull company from 1939 to 1945 (PDF, French), Paulette Richomme, Dissertation University Paris / Nanterre, 2006/2007 (848 kB)
- Bull celebrates reopening of the Swiss branch (PDF, German), press release, Bull GmbH / Cologne, 2007 (41 kB)
- Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: Supercomputer from Bull, By Willi Feldgen, June 10, 2009, 8:02 pm
- Handelsblatt: Atos buys Bull - the new cloud computing giant in France, May 26, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official Website - Via Bull. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
- ↑ French Atomic Energy Authority's Tera 10 supercomputer - developed with Bull NovaScale servers - is confirmed No.1 in Europe by TOP500's latest edition ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
- ↑ heise online - Top 500 supercomputers: Germany doing well again. Accessed on July 23, 2009.
- ↑ Press release - Bull and TÜV Rheinland cooperate for more environmentally friendly data centers. Accessed on July 23, 2009.
- ↑ TÜV Rheinland - TÜV Rheinland certifies that Stadtwerke Düsseldorf have an "energy-efficient data center" ( memento of the original from April 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
- ↑ Bull Investors.Retrieved October 17, 2011.
