Unisys Corporation

Unisys Corporation is an active company in the field of the Informatique. In the past specialized in the development and the supply of hardware and software, it is currently in the course of migration towards a model of Services company.

History

Unisys is resulting from the fusion of Sperry Corporation and Burroughs Corporation the May 26th 1986.

Discusses

The company was made known with a relatively large audience by asserting its intellectual rights on a Brevet which protected LZW, a algorithm of Data compression used - inter alia - in the format of files GIF. This episode is considered by the opponents with the Software patent as an example of the negative impacts which an application of this type of legislation could have, although Unisys arrived only to results limited for the period of validity of its patent, which does not have short any more in the whole world since 2004.

Detail

Unisys counts 37000 collaborators in the world including 750 in France and is present in more than 100 countries.

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