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."

Comments

Re:Pc load letter... WTF does that mean?

[QuaZar666]

you must have never used one one of their Xerox Docutech stations which has lights to tell you when a tray is out of paper. Now it still will use paper as long as one of the other trays contain the same type of paper, which can be set within the system.

- Qua

Hey, look right next door!

[awtbfb]

This announcement is not a huge surprise. FX Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL) is on the same block as PARC. FX as in Fuji Xerox.

Uh, no [was:Hey, look right next door!]

[GoBears]

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.

Re:Now, at last

[iocat]

Despite PARCs perceived failures (like not capitalizing commercially on the GUI), its creation of the laser printer more than made the entire endeavor profitable for Xerox. I suggest reading Dealers of Lightning for a great history of Xerox PARC.