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6 unusual facts about Groupe Bull


François Gernelle

In 1981, the Bull company acquired R2E and he then joined the new entity Bull Micral.

Guy Berruyer

Prior employment included the French software company Groupe Bull where he was director of marketing until 1990 and Claris, where he created the French division and grew into the role of European manager until 1994.

Heinz Nixdorf

He started building machines for RWE and soon became a contractor to Wanderer-Werke and Compagnie des Machines Bull.

Porter five forces analysis

This model was the result of work carried out as part of Groupe Bull's Knowledge Asset Management Organisation initiative.

Martyn Richard Jones, whilst consulting at Groupe Bull, developed an augmented 5 forces model in Scotland in 1993.

Six forces model

Martyn Richard Jones, whilst consulting at Groupe Bull, developed an augmented 5 forces model in Scotland in 1993, it is based on Porter's model, and includes Government (national and regional) as well as Pressure Groups as the notional 6th force.


National champions

The risk involved with such policies is exemplified by the unsuccessful challenges to IBM’s dominance of the computer market by UK’s ICL,  France’s Bull,  and  Italy’s Olivetti during the 1970s.

X PixMap

X Pixmap (XPM) is an image file format used by the X Window System, created in 1989 by Daniel Dardailler and Colas Nahaboo working at Bull Research Center at Sophia Antipolis, France, and later enhanced by Arnaud Le Hors.


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