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PARC Signs On A Partner: Fujitsu
leighklotz writes "PARC, which a few years ago was said be be targeted for a spin-off from Xerox, has signed on its first major partner under its new life as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xerox. Fujitsu has announced "Joint Research in Ubiquitous Computing," a three-year sponsored-research plan beginning in January 2005. 'Because we're not a product company, we need a partner like Fujitsu who can deliver our products into the marketplace,' said Teresa Lunt, according to InfoWorld."
This partnership makes perfect sense for PARC. Marking (or lack thereof) can make or break a company regardless of if they have a good product or not. These days there are so many names and buzz words flying about that serious effort (ie money and advertising talent) must be made to boost brand name recognition.
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Fujitsu will make something that works.
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That's great. So many great inventions came from there. All these intelligent inventions designed for one purpose: porn.
I wonder if they were PARCAs there.
...I ask what in the hell you're talking about?
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In Korea only wholly-owned subsidiaries of old companies need to partner with hard drive companies. Ok, sorry.
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Xerox shouldn't start spinning things off untill they can make a user friendly copier that doesn't leave one wondering... PC load letter?
Seriously though, if they can spin off another group, it can be parallel PARC-ing while the other group drives on.
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Ok, I should have seen this coming. Fujitsu sells RC extraction tools, has licensed an ARC core and they make SPARC processors. Obviously PARC was the missing link!
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This announcement is not a huge surprise. FX Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL) is on the same block as PARC. FX as in Fuji Xerox.
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Quick, buy some Fujitsu stock... they're bound to steal some revolutionary ideas the guys at PARC have been sitting on unknowingly.
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Fuji Xerox is a joint venture between Fuji Film and Xerox. Whereas Fujitsu is a computer company, analogous in a number of ways to IBM.
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"Don't let Steve Jobs and Bill Gates rip off your hard work....."
Yeah! Let the OSS community do it.
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I agree. Just the other day, I heard about a company went under when they fired their star programmer for leaving a disk labeled "main project-2004" on his desk (which was used in a presentation to the venture capitalists), instead of marking it "Sesame street - hardcore pr0n." He just didn't have a marker.
To make a long story short, the company didn't get the investment they needed due to a bad presentation, and they went under.
I don't think Fujitsu is really known for it's marking...shouldn't they have merged with another company?
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"PARC, which a few years ago was said be be targeted for a spin-off from Xerox"
Hmm, looks like the Xerox copying feature got got out of hand...
I worked with them back in 96, Hal Computers. First Ultrasparc to market. Even beat Sun Micro, but they never took it anywhere. They sucked the tech out of the company and then tried to corner the Asian UNIX market. They may make it work but they won't bother to do so here.
Now don't get me wrong, I liked them. But their focus isn't the West. They are strong on their base and may be angling to just snap it up. Time will tell.
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Because we're not a product company, we need a partner like Fujitsu who can deliver our products into the marketplace,'
I thought this is Apple's job...
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my goodness, I hope (but doubt) that the "interesting" mod is a continuation of the joke posed by the parent post. Somehow though, I think that "insightful" would have been funnier. Someone with mod points willing to correct? hint: mark it "funny".
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Did you just say "let go of some unused hardware"?? That's it, hand in your slashdot number! No self respecting geek actually gets rid of old hardware, it's suppose to just get burried underneath all the other junk - :P
Like, For example, the Timex Sinclair 1000 I found recently while moving a small stack of books and papers
is it the os called Polaris? was the original company that started parc named pun?
Yeah PARC makes great things. I like the story of when Steve Jobs visited PARC and "stealing" the idea for the mouse.
btw both of my Fujitsu hard drives failed. Needless to say I never bought a third one. Fool me twice, shame on me!
"Like, For example, the Timex Sinclair 1000 I found recently while moving a small stack of books and papers :P"
The library called. They want those overdue books back.
Um, guys I think this was meant to be funny, it was a pun on his use of marking, as apposed to marketing in the parent post
known for it's marking
"its".
Don't make fun of others' typos.
Interesting! Certainly Fujitsu acknowledges its roots in Fuji Electric, so I see your point. However, the relationship still appears to be one of accidental name resemblance - the company that currently operates as Fuji Electric denies being related to Fuji (Photo) Film...
On a secondary note, notice how Fujitsu is a Japanese company?
I work for Xerox in Australia - where it is called Fuji-Xerox. 75% owned by Fuji Film (Japan) and 25% owned by Xerox (USA).
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