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News Professor Risto Numminen of the Helsinki University of Technology, said supercomputers used in research today are the prototypes of tomorrow's corporate mainframes. The Finnish Ministry of Education has decided to replace its existing Cray T3E... [30 May 2000]
Finland ponders future of Sonera ownership
News Sonera, Finland's largest mobile telephony network provider, is the second most valuable company on the Helsinki stock exchange, after Nokia. The Finnish government is proposing to give up its ownership of the telecommunications company Sonera. [12 May 2000]
ICL restructures to focus on ebusiness drive
News The company's Finnish business - which is to take on responsibility for the Swedish, Norweigan and Danish markets - will be floated separately, on the Helsinki exchange. Services giant ICL is spinning off divisions across Europe to better focus on... [12 Apr 2000]
EC chief issues warning over Vodafone-Mannesmann merger
News Liikanen was speaking at the Global Cities Dialogue on the Information Society conference in Helsinki. The European Commission has made it clear that Vodafone Airtouch must prove that a merger with Mannesmann will benefit consumers. [23 Nov 1999]
Open systems vendor throws weight behind XML
News The comments come soon after the Open Management Group (OMG), proponents of Corba, closed an important technology meeting in Helsinki. The search for an open interface standard has so far been concentrated in three camps: Corba, COM/D-COM and Java. [13 Aug 1998]
